scopes with online content don't indicate when they are loading data

Bug #1351539 reported by Selene ToyKeeper
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Transfer Indicator
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Unity Online Music Scope
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Unity Remote Videos scope
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Michał Sawicz

Bug Description

Several scopes include online content by default. However, none of them display anything to indicate that they are loading data from the internet, so it can be hard to tell it's doing anything because it looks like it's just a blank page indefinitely until content shows up.

The scopes with this issue are (at least) the click store scope, the music scope, and the video scope. It's especially noticeable in the click store, because after tapping "Ubuntu Store", the page is simply blank for long enough that users might hit the back button before anything loads. That's actually how this issue was brought to my attention; I gave the phone to a muggle and asked them to install an app, and they thought I was trying to trick them by telling them to use an app store with no apps, so they hit 'back' before anything loaded.

Some sort of 'loading' animation would be very helpful for avoiding this sort of misunderstanding, and also for letting the user know when their data connection is being used. (might also be nice to light up the 'transfers' indicator while the loading is in progress, in addition to some sort of visual cue in the blank part of the content area)

Related branches

Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in indicator-transfer:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity-scope-onlinemusic:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity-scope-video-remote:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity8:
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Revision history for this message
Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

And when a scope already has content that is now being refreshed, I think the "old" content should still be shown, maybe darkened a bit, while the new content is coming in.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.00+14.10.20140806.1-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.00+14.10.20140806.1-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Michal Hruby ]
  * Work with the scopes-v4 branch + departments->navigation renaming

  [ Michał Sawicz ]
  * Hardcode art shape size for click scope local and predefined
    categories While at it, drop the fillmode of cards
  * Use the correct API in PageHeader. (LP: #1353048)
  * Refactor dash activity indicator. (LP: #1351539)

  [ Albert Astals ]
  * Dash Departments fixes Update maxHeight manually since it depends on
    the position of the item and its parents and it can't know when the
    binding has to be updated Make parent stuff non interactive when the
    department list is shown
  * PageHeader: when on search clip y-coordinates otherwise the
    background spills out when on search (LP: #1350398)
  * Dash: Implement OverlayColor support in Cards
  * Hardcode art shape size for click scope local and predefined
    categories While at it, drop the fillmode of cards
  * Make test_departments test more stable There's various
    DashDepartments on the dash, make sure we're working over the one
    that is on screen, otherwise clicks don't end up where they should
  * Work with the scopes-v4 branch + departments->navigation renaming
  * Fixes for dash as app Load i18n catalog Process command line options
    Add the posibility to have a mouse touch adaptor (LP: #1353351)
  * Implement the Expandable Preview Widget Now TextSummary is not
    expandable by itself anymore, you have to use it inside an
    Expandable to get the behaviour
  * Add test prefix to xml output, seems CI needs it

  [ Antti Kaijanmäki ]
  * Indicators: Adds new ModemInfoItem to be used with indicator-network
    (LP: #1329204)

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * When the edge demo is running, don't show the greeter if the screen
    is turned off. This avoids an odd interaction where parts of the
    greeter are disabled but the edge demo isn't visible until you slide
    the greeter away. (LP: #1283425)
  * Don't hardcode the phablet password in our testing script.

  [ Ying-Chun Liu ]
  * Add divider dots.

  [ Mirco Müller ]
  * Make sure the TextField of a snap-decision notification has the
    active focus upon creation, thus the osk shows up right away. (LP:
    #1346867)

  [ Andrea Cimitan ]
  * Add touchdown effect to dash cards.
  * Import Ubuntu.Components for preview image gallery to pick up
    default flicking speeds.
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Aug 2014 19:40:05 +0000

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
no longer affects: unity8
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