On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:43:05PM -0500, Andrew Rodland wrote: > On Thursday 19 December 2002 07:38 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > > > The third stretch of the bar - maybe green, indicates the number of > > > > blocks which must be downloaded to reassemble the file. > > > > > > Eh? Sorry, I don't understand this bit at all. IRC? > > > > You need 100 blocks, out of 150. You have successfully downloaded 20, > > with 10 failures. The green area would be 80 blocks in length, > > representing the number of blocks you must download at this point to > > successfully reassemble the file. > > > Please, please, I know this is a "blue" theme, but if you're going to use > green, don't make it anything but "blocks we have". :) > > I would personally rather see: > Green -- successful blocks. > White* -- not tried blocks. > A black line -- right after the number of blocks we need. I would have a black border join the black line and go back to the left margin, to make it really obvious which side of the black line needs to be filled. If only for the benefit of people who can't tell their left from their right. > White* -- not tried blocks. > Yellow -- failed blocks that have retries left. Maybe getting redder with more retries? > Red -- blocks that have outright failed. > > *It could be that blue if you prefer, but I don't find it as appealing. Note > also that either/both of these sections could be nonexistent. The point is > that the black line should always appear in the 'right' place. > > If the green bar reaches the black line, we've been successful. > If the red bar moves left of the black line, we've failed. > If the yellow bar is left of the black line, then maybe we're in danger. > > I think that this would be very easy to learn how to read -- and even the > uninitiated should be able to handle "green bar reaches black line == good" . > > Cheers > --hobbs > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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