Currently when Vuze is updating itself or any of its components, the progress dialog stays up during the entire process, covering part of the main window and not allowing itself to be lowered or minimized (without minimizing the main Vuze window as well).

However, despite the implication the Vuze interface is still perfectly active and usable during this process. Because the updates are downloaded and installed from torrents it can take some time to complete, time which the user may reasonably wish to do other things. The user may also have final tasks they wish to perform once the update process is complete, before allowing the application to restart.

I'm a Linux user, so fortunately I have the option of windowshading the update dialog, which gets it mostly out of the way. Still, it's silly to have to do that, since the dialog's processing doesn't actually block normal use of the application. Really, it should be closeable if the user doesn't wish to watch its progress, automatically reopening in Restart-Now/Restart-Later state once the operation is complete.

Heh. In fact, the installer window is weirdly decoupled from the rest of the interface. Just now, while switching to the Beta program, I had the Component/Plugin Installer window sitting open in Done state waiting for me to click on restart, and an Updater window popped up telling me that I need to update to 5.2.0.1_B17 (the version that just finished installing in the OTHER dialog)!