Bug#749732: deja-dup: Show a 'backup in process now' button in overview

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Package: deja-dup
Version: 30.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Several times, I have started backing up, and then for whatever reason I have
cancelled it, and maybe switched the computer off and then back on again later.
I then go to it through the menu, and I see the overview, and it says 'last
backup was ... days ago' and 'next backup is today' or similar, but the
'Restore...' and 'Back Up Now...' buttons are greyed out and can't be clicked
on. Often when this happens, I can launch system monitor, and it turns out that
it is already running in the background, but for whatever reason there is no
window or system tray showing, to inform me of that. The wording given is
misleading on this page because it implies that it needs to be backed up, but
also that it isn't doing so currently - and won't let you click a button to do
that. When it is occurring ideally either one of the two sections in the
overview would say 'Back Up In Process Now' or similar, and there would be
buttons, like you get sometimes on the system tray item, offering to 'show
progress' etc.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages deja-dup depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.20.0-2
ii  duplicity                                    0.6.23-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.18-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.7-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.40.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.2-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.8.2-3
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.3-1
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                                1.10.0-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18-1

Versions of packages deja-dup recommends:
ii  gvfs-backends                1.20.1-1+b1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.6p1-5
ii  python-boto                  2.27.0-1
ii  python-cloudfiles            1.7.11-2

deja-dup suggests no packages.

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