[design] Spinner on app launch is inconsistent with standard activity indicator
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu UI Toolkit |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| Ubuntu UX |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| unity8 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Ubuntu 14.10 r257
0. Close System Settings if if is already running.
1. Choose System Settings and watch it launch.
2. Choose "Updates" and watch the check for updates.
What you see:
1. A spinner consisting of three orange dots, without tails, that move, with pauses, in a triangle.
2. A spinner consisting of three orange dots, with tails, that move, without pauses, in a circle.
What you should see: either
1. launching an app shouldn't ever show a spinner, or
2. the two spinners should look like they were designed by the same person.
It's okay for spinners to look different; it's not as if you're likely to be confused about what a spinner is communicating. But two spinners that are part of the operating system probably should be more similar than these two.
[Originally reported by Jane Silber in bug 1355093.]
| kevin gunn (kgunn72) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Spinner on app launch is inconsistent with standard activity indicator + [design] Spinner on app launch is inconsistent with standard activity + indicator |
| Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #3 |
@design team
just to make sure I'm not confused.
you are not saying to make the app launch spinner the same as the unity8 spinner ? (e.g. the small ubuntu logo that spins directly after you click "finish" on the welcome wizard)
another question, about consistency, recently work went in to allow applications to customize this. I hope this isn't what we're seeing. Also there is nothing preventing an app from doing something similar or way different...either way injecting some inconsistency. Should we consider shutting down the option to override till we sort this?
Lastly, add ui-toolkit, b/c I think that's where the spinners are coming from.