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[León Asad Castillejos]

Hi all, I'm León.

I'm helping a friend to update to Karmic over IM. I've noticed a few... not
bugs, but little problems.

For example, the update manager for him showed at first 8 minutes left. Then
it changed to 34, then to 9 again. In my opinion, the timing should be
calculated having in mind the lowest KB/s ever received in the upgrade
process, and then, slowly, cut off time if the network keeps stable and
reaches high speeds. I think that the user shouldn't have "remaining time"
displayed, but "maximum remaining time" instead.

For example, if I'm in a hurry and only have 1 hour left with the computer,
and I want to know if the process will complete, I prefer it to tell me it
will take 1 hour and 5 minutes if it's gonna take 55 minutes, because there
can be a lot of problems in the downloading process. Problems like unstable
WiFi, stolen WiFi, messy cables, etc.

Second. When the update manager detects a new version, don't just display a
passive banner. It would be better if a OSD notification was displayed,
showing the update manager icon. This notification would be displayed once
or twice a week for 4 weeks, after that time, everything notifying of a new
version would be disabled, while the end user could still update manually.

I'm afraid i haven't been as clear as I wanted to be. If you need me to
clear something out, please reply and I will try to explain.
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