so if somebody would like to help
- we should spot showWhile: useless senders
- progress bar useless calls
Stef
On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:58 AM, Igor Stasenko 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:
>
>
> - a tiny one line in a corner of desktop (instead of huge banner
> centered in window,
> sticking on top of everything and obscuring the view)
> - not blocking user input
> - 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
> (if user really wants, he can hover the mouse over progress line to
> see the details, but by default
> it should take minimal space on the screen).
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
>
