Re: Xcode stalls, no UI, for first 5 minutes of first launch
Re: Xcode stalls, no UI, for first 5 minutes of first launch
- Subject: Re: Xcode stalls, no UI, for first 5 minutes of first launch
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:00:38 -0300
On 9/8/14, 20:33, Jens Alfke wrote:
>> <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>> It's not Xcode, it's Gatekeeper. For Gatekeeper to put up a generic
>> progress indicator for checking time, it would have to first scan
>> everything inside an app - adding at least 50% to the total time.
>
> It could use an indefinite progress indicator. The UI isn't as nice, but
> having no visual indication at all is _terrible_ UI.
True. But that would require the GateKeeper dialog to pop open
immediately, and then fill in later whether the app is approved,
"damaged", or ask the user... might be worth filing a bug about this.
It would be more user-friendly in any case.
> OTOH, this problem only seems to afflict us developers. I can understand
> if the Gatekeeper developers figure it's not worth adding UI for this to
> the entire OS if it only improves the user experience for Xcode.
Well, I've seen it happen with other large apps when the system was very
occupied - Calibre and GarageBand, for sure.
--
Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise
In their own business even sages err."
http://brockerhoff.net/blog/
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