On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:44:27PM -0700, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:
Whose interface guidelines, we ask.
Not yours, apparently. :)
I can't quote page and verse, but I'm reasonably sure Apple strongly
suggests that progress indicators be provided for long-running tasks when
the user is expecting a result. I don't know that Microsoft has interface
guidelines...
Both do, and I've quoted page and verse in another email :-)
I think that Lan's concern here is scriptability, which is important. But,
having a --quiet option is sufficient for this. But, showing progress
should be the default. Most users will start pressing ^C and other things
for even a command line program that doesn't print anything for a few
seconds.
David
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