[Bug 670409] Re: Not clear that you can continue while files are copying

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Title:
  Not clear that you can continue while files are copying

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  In informal user testing of Ubiquity (i.e. looking over the shoulders
  of people installing Ubuntu), two out of two people have got stuck on
  the point where Ubuntu begins copying files.

  Neither of them realized that it was possible to select the timezone,
  and answer further questions, while the copying was in progress.

  Both of them thought the installer had slowed to a stop at the point
  where the progress bar is at about 80% and the text above it says
  "Ready when you are." With the second, we didn't actually realize she
  was installing Ubuntu, until she said "It’s been at this point for two
  hours now, I think it’s stuck."

  There are several ways this problem could be solved.
  * Return to the pre-Maverick behavior of starting the copying only once all the questions are answered.
  * Begin the copying immediately, but hide its progress completely until all the questions are answered.
  * Put the progress at the top instead of the bottom, and have some sort of explanatory prompt above the rest, e.g. "While we’re doing that…"
  * Maybe other ways.

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