On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:19:12PM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > If you have any constructive suggestions of ways to improve the > progress display without disabling it altogether, please post them to > the sister bug (whose number I don't know yet, but it should be up > in a few minutes).
Ah...it looks like I need to apologize. There was a suggestion in your bug report that I apparently forgot about, namely the idea of using a single message and a spinner. I'm not planning to collapse the messages into one message -- they're still useful on slower systems, but it might make the bar less visually distracting if I disable the colorful progress effect and use a spinner instead (as you suggested), maybe with the current percentage over on the right-hand side of the screen. The real problem with the progress bars, IMO, is the way they run from 0 to 100% multiple times for a single task. Unfortunately, the design of the apt libraries precludes doing anything more sensible with them. :-( Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
