On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:49:13PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:09:30AM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > If we have an overlayed box indicating which section is the required
> > blocks, and if we run all the green (meaning fetched) from one end, all
> > the red (meaning failed and given up) from the other end and everything
> > else in the middle in some arbitrary order, it is possible. But it will
> > not be a single progress bar, it will be a progress bar with a box
> > overlayed over the first two thirds.
> 
> This is half-way towards the idea you have been rudely dismissing all 
> day.  Take the next step and you don't need that box.
Why? How does the user know, without reading the docs, that the success
progress bar never needs to get across the yellow section at the end?

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