"Ready when you are" message is misleading and incorrect

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I've arranged for this message to at least only be displayed if the installer is waiting for user actions (which was always the intent).

mpt suggested hiding the contents of the dark progress section if copying files completes before the user has finished answering all the questions, which would avoid this problem while also avoiding the alternative problem that the user doesn't realise they're supposed to do something because there's still a progress bar on the screen. I'm experimenting with this now.

This seems to work well for GTK. I'm working on the Qt-based version now.

@Colin Watson: thanks for your quick response and efforts!

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.17

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ubiquity (2.9.17) precise; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Don't display "Ready when you are..." when the installer isn't actually
    waiting for user actions.
  * When waiting for user actions, just hide the progress bar and associated
    widgets rather than displaying "Ready when you are...", to avoid
    confusion associated with a progress bar being displayed when the system
    is in fact waiting for user input (LP: #670409, #925427).
  * Mark file descriptors used for communication with parted_server
    FD_CLOEXEC.
  * Restore finish-install's title after installing the oem-config frontend
    (LP: #925155).
  * Avoid duplicate call to osextras.find_on_path('check-language-support').
  * Stop filtering warnings from the apt module which are no longer emitted.
  * PEP-8 import ordering.
  * Make the "Choose a picture" page translatable (LP: #892384).
  * Make the "run all pending GTK events" function accessible from
    ubiquity.gtkwidgets, and use it in the test suite. This makes the test
    suite about four seconds faster.
  * Fix sys.path mishandling in test suite.
  * Mark WPA2-only access points as secure.
  * Add initial tests for wireless page.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: choose-mirror 2.39ubuntu3,
    netcfg 1.68ubuntu11.

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * ubiquity/gtk_ui.py: in the crash handler also call apport directly if in
    the maybe-ubiquity mode (LP: #901381)
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:27:15 +0000