I think that pretty much sums up what I was thinking for my original idea. And no my original idea wasn't contiguous. This idea sounds really easy to understand for 'n00bs'. It would be easy to explain in one or two lines to them as well. My vote goes to this idea.
> -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Andrew Rodland > Sent: 20 December 2002 01:43 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] SplitFileRequestServlet > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > White* -- not tried blocks. > Yellow -- failed blocks that have retries left. > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+AnWu6xdpaulLLFURAgxpAJ9IgpyQMXAEZP9K+8Aea+Y3X1iNHgCdFJ64 > 3kKeFlBlGNDwpAJPKXf8+LU= > =Eotu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
