Chris Cunningham wrote:
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
The "number" of simultaneous progress bars could be displayed next to a
single one showing in a bottom status/task bar - and a hover of them
would expand to show them all.
