When you use Discover (version 5.9.4, in Kubuntu 17.04) to install package updates, there is no overall progress indicator. There should be one.
I'll mention that there is a thing that says "Tasks (0%)", but it's very small, textual instead of visual (should be a progress bar or something) and the "0%" text never updates until the overall task is finished.
Works in 5.10.x: that UI element correctly updates, with a moving progress bar and a percentage that changes as the package updates are applied.
It doesn't always work quite right, but that's being actively worked on.
We've had reports of this still being broken in Neon.
Would it be possible to get a video of the brokenness? It would be helpful to understand the problem and find a solution.
Here's a video taken using Neon dev (stable branches). No overall progress bar appears: https://webmshare.com/m8Z8q Using an unstable branch Neon, an overall progress bar does appears but is not accurate: It starts at 0%, goes up to 5%, then down again, and finally disappears once the update is finished without ever reaching 100%. I'll see if I can get a video of that.
Went back into looking at the issue, it's tracked here: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/issues/159
Looks like it, thanks.
Git commit b092b3b60b6c3175bb0901130b6493c0166c8cd5 by Aleix Pol. Committed on 06/09/2017 at 15:13. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'. Improve progress bar in some cases Updates consist on first downloading then installing. This patch will make sure the progress doesn't jump back to 0 when it finishes downloading and starts updating. M +24 -4 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/PackageKitUpdater.cpp M +1 -1 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/PackageKitUpdater.h https://commits.kde.org/discover/b092b3b60b6c3175bb0901130b6493c0166c8cd5
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