On 7/12/10 2:11 PM, "Luck, Tony" <[email protected]> wrote:
>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. Fair enough. Inaccuracy by that many orders of magnitude is indeed problematic. Ryan _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
