[darcs-devel] [issue1500] 406/445 looks like a progress indicator but isn't
Max Battcher
me at worldmaker.net
Sun Jul 19 06:37:17 UTC 2009
Zooko wrote:
> New submission from Zooko <zooko at zooko.com>:
>
> <warner> (one of the maddening things about darcs is that the "406/445"
> messages, that look like they should be progress indicators,
> aren't. In "A/B", the B keeps growing) [10:48]
Interesting; but I've seen other tools follow a similar pattern where
the "outer" estimate grows, and I for one have grown used to it. (For
instance, debian's apt and related tools do it in a few places. Even
fsck has a tendency to do it.) Something I find nice is that darcs
doesn't bother giving an approximate (constantly changing) percentage
mark for "unbounded" indicators. (Whereas well known indicators in a few
places in darcs do provide percentages.)
I'm assuming that the hashed-storage file index will cut down on the
number of progress messages of this sort as it gets better integrated...
Does warner have any suggestions for how this might be bettered from a
UI standpoint?
I was just thinking that one simple UI change suggestion to implement
would be to simply add a tilde prefix or plus suffix:
Fooing the bar (~406/445)...
or
Fooing the bar (406/445+)...
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