On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > If you would ask me (yeah nobody asking me, by i will tell anyways ;) ) > how the indication of a progress of some process should look like, > here's my potential answer: <snip> > - no stupid nesting.. i don't care what happens inside of something > else happens.. > if it is really necessary, i would just replace the title of a task > with it's subtask title while it performing. > this is just about first rule: it has to be a single line, not a bunch > of lines stocking one over another.. > i think this is abuse. > > most of the times, i just need a notion of progress of a whole thing, > not progress of it's subthings
I have cases where I have multiple background processes going on that occassionally wake up, and in that case, I really, really appreciate the stacking progress bars - I can tell that one (or more) background processes have kicked off. This isn't quite 'nesting', although I think it uses some of the same features. As long as some result out of this discussion doesn't remove that capability, I agree with what you are saying. -Chris
