Dave Miner wrote: > 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. I agree. What I was trying to say was that we could modify the callback data displayed in the gui without affecting the ability to log the actual progress milestones more specifically.
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