This gets me every time.
I see this dialog box:
and click on the “Try Now” button because I’m blind and don’t see the giant “Running” and “00:00:00”. Nothing happens and I curse to myself. THEN I realize Recovery Mode is already running.
Can the “Try Now” button be hidden when it doesn’t apply, like when Recovery Mode is running?
It would be really cool if the “00:00:00” was hidden as well when Recovery Mode was running, so it’s super obvious it’s running.
Eric C
This button is weird because it doesn’t cause an explicit action… it just sets a state flag indicating that it is OK to proceed with the next attempt. Clicking multiple times has no undesirable effect.
That said, I agree it is confusing. I hesitate to disable it… due to its nature I fear that without a deeper analysis we could get into a state where the button never becomes re-enabled. As a compromise, it will now show a message indicating that a retry has already been requested.
@Ken,
Thanks for improving it. I agree and understand your concern.
As a fellow software developer (I support the AllskyTeam/allsky: A Raspberry Pi operated allsky camera) software, I’m curious if you’ve ever considered a setting for different “modes”, for example, to limit or increase the amount of logging done, from “minimal” (a subset of what’s currently logged) to “heavy” (a superset).
And/or a mode for “advanced” users that would, for example, hide the “Try Now” button as previously discussed and hide other things an advanced user likely isn’t interested in and show more details that would overwhelm a non-advanced user.
And/or an “experimental” setting that would enable not-fully-tested features, possibly like hiding “Try Now”.
Eric C
