On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Ware, Ryan R <[email protected]> wrote: > While I understand where you're coming from with this, the problem with > the helicopter is that there is no intermediate feedback. All you know is > that the update is _supposed_ to be doing something but you have no idea > if anything is really going on. With the progress bar, you at least know > intermediate steps are happening. Yes, it is completely annoying to have > something that isn't accurate, but isn't that better than having no > feedback at all?
In this case it really looked like the update had hung ... I'd seen the progress bar move quickly towards the half-way mark (IIRC it took less than a minute to get that far). Then it didn't move at all for the next several (> 5, perhaps more) minutes. So I didn't know that "intermediate steps are happening" from the progress bar. I did see some icons changing in the Status column of the window above the progress bar, which gave me confidence that it was doing something and I should leave it be. But the progress bar not only wasn't helping my confidence factor ... it was actively diminishing it. -Tony _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
