28579 - [Mac] Installer says `Click the Install button' when I already have

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2000021608, MacOS 8.6

To reproduce:
* Start the Mozilla installer, and progress to the point where it says `Click the
  Install button to download and install the selected components.' (By the way,
  why `download and install'? Why not just `install'? I've already downloaded the
  components, haven't I?)
* Click the Install button.

What should happen:
* As Mozilla starts installing, the `Click the Install button to download and
  install the selected components.' text should disappear.

What actually happens:
* It doesn't.

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

The reason is because the installer was originally designed to be able to 
download the components the user selected to install.  However, this feature is 
not available for mozilla yet.

reassigning to sgehani.

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

Users read from top to bottom.  The disabling of the Install and Back buttons 
provides user feedback that the install has started.  In this context, it is 
obvious to the user that they cannot click the Install button.  I believe this 
is normal installer behavior.  

One reason I would not like this behavior is that our installer technology is 
generic.  The message displayed was thrown together by an engineer (myself).  
When the docs folks review all the text we'll keep this in mind and try and word 
it so that the message isn't rendered obsolete while displayed.  Thanks for 
the observation.

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

verified

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I don't believe this, really I don't. I can't think of a reason why any installer 
(or any other kind of software, for that matter) should leave an instruction on 
the screen, as the only instruction on the screen, when the software is in full 
knowledge that the instruction has already been carried out by the user. So I 
don't see what this has to do with the Mozilla installer being a generic one.

An easy (and generic) way to fix this would be to label the button on the
*previous*  page `Install', and to begin installation immediately on showing this 
new page (the page with the progress indicators). That way the `click the Install 
button' message would not be necessary at all, *and* the number of mouse clicks 
required to install the product would be reduced by one.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-mobile/fenix] Bump future from 0.18.2 to 0.18.3 in /taskcluster (backport #28579) (#28773)