[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11232: UI improvements for 2.9 bulk plugin/theme updater (esp. success/fail msgs)

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#11232: UI improvements for 2.9 bulk plugin/theme updater (esp. success/fail msgs)
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 Reporter:  jeremyclarke  |       Owner:  ryan                   
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                    
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0                    
Component:  UI            |     Version:                         
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  needs-patch ui-feedback
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Comment(by jane):

 I agree with Jeremy that providing a link back to where they came from
 would be best. Our standard is to keep you on the screen you've been
 working on, but in this case it's a little weird because when you click
 update, we don't show you the update status on the same screen, we take
 you to another one, so to keep as close to our standard as possible, we
 should give you a link back. At some point in a future version, it would
 be worth looking into changing that and having a layer slide open above
 the main screen content/below the header with progress bars (in general,
 prefer progress bars to spinners in all cases, as spinners do not actually
 give user any information and can just as easily be a sign that something
 is hung up indefinitely).

 Personally I think taking away the details and replacing with the success
 message feels jumpy and the messages disappeared before they could be read
 because the update went fast. That makes the user feel like they may have
 missed something. I'd rather do Jeremy's first suggestion of just
 highlighting the success message to stand out more as an alert. When we're
 not a day before RC, in the next version, I'd support redesigning the
 update process but the confusion of show/replace when you don't have time
 to read the text is more of a problem than having to scroll if you're
 updating a lot of plugins. It's not like updating 20 plugins at a time is
 a frequent activity for any one average user. In future version, we should
 move to progress bars with the status messages.

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