SUMMARY The Discover user-interface uses the word "fetching" in a couple of places, but it is not always clear what exactly is happening. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Discover 2. Click on Updates section 3. Click Refresh 4. Notice it says "Fetching updates..." in the main body of the window, and "Updates (Fetching...)" in the left-hand list 5. (Assuming updates are available) Click Update All 6. Notice that it says "Updates (Fetching...)" in the left-hand list OBSERVED RESULT Discover uses the word "fetching" while it is checking to see if new updates are available, as well as while downloading updates. EXPECTED RESULT Use different words for different states, e.g. "checking" and "downloading". SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250405 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.14.0-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
Seems easy to change; would you like to submit a patch?
Well, maybe. I can probably easily enough change the main body text from "Fetching updates..." to "Checking for updates...", and similarly change "Updates (Fetching...)" to "Updates (Checking...)" in the category list. But I'm not sure how to (or even whether to) detect when updates are being downloaded (or installed), in order to put "Updates (Downloading...)" (or "Updates (Installing...)") in the category list. Also, if we're making this change, I think the "Refresh" button should be changed to "Check for Updates". What do you think?
Actually, it seems that Discover used to say "Checking for updates..." and have a "Check for Updates" button instead of Refresh. Personally I think that wording is better, but presumably someone changed it to "Fetching" for a reason and I'm not sure I want to rehash any arguments!
I don't think this was some sort of planned thing. Feel free to submit a patch to make it better.