Re: [Ayatana] progress window chrome

Subject: Re: [Ayatana] progress window chrome

From: "frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:24:41 +0100

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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 20:57, Roth Robert <evfool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes. It is a bug in the HIG that it recommends repeating title bar text
as primary text in progress windows.

The sentence that recommended repeating the title bar text as primary text in progress windows was removed since 2.30... you can still see it in 2.28, but it does not appear since 2.30 anymore. I guess that the screenshot was not updated.

whow, such historical detail ;)

Now let's hope that the 3.0 will rid us of the necessity of talking about how many titles a progress window needs..

In reality, even the current stable HIG recommends against using windows for the indication of progress, which itself leads to the conclusion that displaying progress within an extra window is an improper way of presenting that kind of data.