No progress information

[ghost]

Background connections to notaries just happen without any visible progress information, which leads the end user wondering if anything is happening at all. This is one problem hindering adoption. Responsiveness and feedback are required for good user experience

I added few notaries from the wiki's list and the problem grrew. Tried to add few more and nothing happend, even though I had clicked on two notary links. After a moment both of their error dialogs popped up.

[moxie0]

Seems reasonable, any ideas for how to display progress info?

[DuMuT6p]

You mean progress for adding new notaries or progress for verification connections ?

I`ve tried to write something, but am not too good at javascript. My idead was to show a gif animation on the button, untill the response. Something like :

setUpdatingStatus: function() {
document.getElementById("convergence-button").image = "chrome://convergence/content/images/status-updating.gif";
},

and enclose the runing function in setUpdatingStatus/setEnabledStatus.

[moxie0]

Seems reasonable, although that would only show 'indeterminate' progress. Got an image?

[DuMuT6p]

Its just your icons, a little tweaked into a gif - https://imgur.com/Xsa7c. Im no artist but it`s good for a placeholder.