On 29 Sep 2003 12:46:22 -0400, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote: > By the way, I was wondering -- is there a way to mock a progress bar for > individual headers as one continuous download? E.g. we know that there > are N headers that we need to download. Instead of drawing a progress > bar for each of them, how about we draw one progress bar per all > headers. E.g.: > > Downloading headers > xine-0.9.22-0.fdr.4.0.94. 10% |=== | 15/200 02:11 > > The only thing that would change during the header download would be the > name of the header currently downloaded, the progress of the download, > and the count of downloaded/total. As each .hdr file is only a few kb in > size, drawing progress bars individually is really an overkill. > > I see two benefits for this: > a) It's tidier as the screen doesn't just fly by the user > b) the user sees how many headers are left to download > c) this is consistent with other progress bar styles. > > What does everyone think? And those of us with slow links wouldn't be able to see any progress. Although, I do like the count "15/200" for the progress of the entire update, I feel the progress bar should remain for the individual files. -Paul
