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UI Improvement: Clearer message for Error when Extracting fails with Online Downloader

Open thingsiplay opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Description

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  • Screenshot Left: Current Success message
  • Screenshot Middle: Current Error message
  • Screenshot Right: Mockup how Error message should look like

Not really a bug, but an improvement to the UI and user experience. When downloading from the "Online Updater" by clicking the "Update ..." buttons, then the message for failed downloads/updates looks the same as for a successful ones. The only difference is that "Error" is added after the next, in a lose color that is easily miss-able (happened a lot to me). Worse, the entire coloring is still green with a green checkmark.

Expected behavior

The appearing message should be much more different from a success. I added a mockup how this could look like with a red color and a red cross instead green checkmark. And maybe put the word "Error" in front of the message, so it reads like "X Error Extracting 'info.zip'!"

Actual behavior

The appearing message for Error looks almost the same as for Success.

Steps to reproduce the bug

This is not consistently testable, because it depends download/update it fails or not. And is only applicable if Online Updater is enabled. Tested with the "ozone" menu driver.

  1. Open RetroArch
  2. Go to Online Updater menu.
  3. Click Update Core Info Files or any of the other Update ... buttons on the bottom.
  4. Retry until an Error happens, just for demonstration how an Error message looks like.

Version/Commit

  • RetroArch: 1.19.1

Environment information

  • OS: Linux (v6.9)

thingsiplay avatar Jun 21 '24 22:06 thingsiplay