Sarah Jelinek wrote: > > > Dave Miner wrote: >> Niall Power wrote: >> >>> I don't see a need to have a unique message for each of the 5 >>> activities. I'd reduce it down to 3 messages (or perhaps even 2 by >>> skipping 1): >>> >>> 1. Determining required components for installation >>> 2. Installing from live CD media >>> 3. Performing post installation configuration >>> >>> > For Dwarf we had these three things. The changes for the items Niall > noted are in the transfer module, which handles its own callbacks. > > I agree that we shouldn't display things like 'fixing zero length > files'. I don't think the fix would be too difficult, we could just > rename the milestones Postinstallation or something like that. >
I would prefer that the logs accurately described the function that was going on, because they're a support interface as much as anything. Ephemeral progress messages in a GUI don't benefit as much from being specific, so making them different is the solution I think works best. Dave
