SUMo : Keep your software up to date

• Some of the images on the buttons disappear when SUMo is busy.
• What do the zeroes before an orange retry symbol and a red exclamation mark mean? 0 minor & 0 major updates? If so, I find the text in SUMo 4 more clear than the images in 5.
• The image for ignore looks like a shield, which I find confusing.
• I like the new square checkmarks
• I prefer the number of up-to-date, minor, and major products to be in 1 vertical column as in version 4 (now split into 2 columns in version 5).

Hope this helps.

 

Thank you !
1200 is the number of "short term active" users, not the grand total.
Grand total is more about 40.000 (which is not that much....)
12 highly motivated users is enougth : quality first !

 

This beta is more or less a release candidate : all features for 5.0.0 are in. I already have some items for future 5.0.1 and other 5.0.x.
What i want to check prior to release are general UI feedback like XIII did in order to do some tweaking, if possible.
Full detailed change Log is available here : http://www.kcsoftwares.com/bugs/changelog_page.php?project_id=11

 

- Greyed images while busy : This was already the case in SUMo 4
- zero's : Yes, you have the right interpretation. Are the image confusing for you ? Or only the layout ? or both ?
- "Ignore" image : will be reworked as i plan to merge Delete & Ignore function (most likely with the "Delete" image only or a better 3rd one) as per http://www.kcsoftwares.com/bugs/view.php?id=3986
- checkmarks : Thanks
- See 2nd comment.

Thanks !!!

 

Ah, I didn't know that.
40.000 worldwide may be not be that much, but for a 'niche' product like SUMo, I think it's not bad at all!

 

You're certainly right. By 40K i mean "real users" with regular requests, not "use once and unsinstall" users.
This gives you an indication of the credibility of SUMo competitors when advertising their number of users

 

Thanks, Kyle. I may consider trying SUMo 5 beta later, perhaps.
Great that XIII already tried and commented.

 

I am a happy Pro user - SUMo is a 'must have' for me, I use it every day, sometimes more than once a day! It is especially useful for updates of my portable applications, whose folder I have included, which, unlike most installed programs, don't alert you to new versions.

Further to XIII comments, I would also prefer layout change for icons top right, but four horizontal, not vertical.
And yes, agree merge Ignore / Skip / Delete, with maybe improved icon.

But these are small things. Nice job Kyle, UI did need a bit of improvement.

 

Maybe it's more noticeable now that the images are larger

Layout and images actually.

 

OK, i'll try to make this better, either directly in the first 5.0.0 release or in quickly released 5.0.x updates.

 

BTW; if you need another power user I might be able to help now and then (by marking things as beta myself instead of reporting them here), if you want me to.

 

Please contact me by email
support [ AT ] kcsoftwares.com

 

I made a mockup with 4 horizontal pictograms + figures : does not fit (or is truely too congested).
The only way to make it fit is to remove the text "Use this tool...". What would you think about this ?

 

Done.

 

I could do without that text (completely ignore it after having read it once; seems more like first-time onboarding to me)

 

That text can go, but maybe then people won't know about the Drag'n'Drop feature, which I have never used.
So it's fine if you leave it as it is also.

 

Confession: I did not know about drag & drop, even though that text has been there for quite a while...

 

OK, i'll send you a new beta with horizontal + hint and text removed

 

Access granted (see my email).
Thanks

 

Dear all !

I've taken your feedback into account and made something even lighter !
Download link is still : http://www.kcsoftwares.com/beta/sumo.exe

Again, all feedback welcome (in particular compared to previous beta !)

 

Minor remark: I would vertically center the numbers instead of aligning them to the top.

I'm no designer, but I would like to try/see a more flat "modern" (Windows 10) look (which will be much more work?).

MalwareBytes AntiMalware might be a good example:

• plenty of white space
• a few basic colors (white, gray, black, blue)
  
• small colored dots (you might use green, orange red for up-to-date/minor/major) with more contrast

I also like the way Emsisoft has moved their security to a modern look.

 

For me, it is an improvement over the previous one

 

Thank you !

 

New proposal for v5.x GUI !
http://www.kcsoftwares.com/beta/sumo.exe

Is it getting better or worse ?

 

It's getting better.
* The Icons are now better placed (left instead of right)
* The "white area" is gone