On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Paul W. Frields<[email protected]> wrote: > A note on the supposedly useless interface -- my question is, why do > people care so much about a progress bar anyway? When I get an update > alert, I right-click, tell the system to install updates, and go about > my work. I don't care what the download speed is, since there are > usually things I care about more like the activity I'm busy with > already. When the updates are done, if it's important I'll get a > notifier about restarting my session or the system.
Because, on my relatively slow DSL connection at home, I'd like to know if updates are going to be finished downloading in a couple of minutes or a few hours. When I'm ready to shut my computer off but it's downloading updates, it's nice to know if I should just hang tight for a few minutes or go off to bed and turn the machine off in the morning. There actually is value in knowing how long an unattended process is going to take. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
