SUMMARY To be honest I don't like using discover to search for updates because it does not give any feedback on the update progress. If I use apt update from the cli, it gives me some visual indication that it is actually doing something. I am in China right now where some repositories are blocked by the Great Firewall. That means that Discover doesn't give me any response until the connection times out. SUGGESTION How about having some load indicator showing which repositories have been checked and how many are pending and maybe even a live count of found upgradable packages? This has been addressed in Bug 375786 (no clue how to link, sorry) but nothing has been done in that regard and it is one of the major reasons why I prefer the command line over Discover.
> SUGGESTION > How about having some load indicator showing which repositories have been > checked and how many are pending and maybe even a live count of found > upgradable packages? Yep. This is on my to-do list.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > > SUGGESTION > > How about having some load indicator showing which repositories have been > > checked and how many are pending and maybe even a live count of found > > upgradable packages? > Yep. This is on my to-do list. This would also avoid confusion when some sources finish checking before others. On slow connections it may take several minutes to fetch a large package list. On my system, for instance, flatpak will finish checking first and then apt several minutes later – so the flatpak updates are displayed but the "Update all" button greyed out. Of course Discover's still checking for updates, but it looks as though it finished.
Git commit 95c39a6f7f2bf7ddf69d8aef558012fe2dff305d by Nate Graham. Committed on 17/03/2019 at 17:00. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Improve update states' UI Summary: - Add a busy indicator when something is refreshing or checking - Update strings to be a bit more user-friendly - Don't change the Update page's title; status is adequately indicated by the footer text already Related: bug 396140 FIXED-IN: 5.16.0 Test Plan: For example: {F6698086, size=full} Reviewers: apol, #vdg, #discover_software_store Reviewed By: apol, #discover_software_store Subscribers: plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19825 M +1 -1 discover/qml/DiscoverWindow.qml M +19 -12 discover/qml/UpdatesPage.qml https://commits.kde.org/discover/95c39a6f7f2bf7ddf69d8aef558012fe2dff305d