Re: [Ayatana] persistent awareness

[Jan Claeys <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Op maandag 27-09-2010 om 09:02 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef David Hamm:
> Obviously the user wants to see what the progress is, hence a progress
> bar, so why hide it in a menu. 

For an action that the user wants or needs to wait for, a dialog window
or other widget with a visible progress bar is what you want, of course.

For a long-duration action that takes place in the background, it's
easier to have an indicator so that the progress dialog doesn't have to
clutter your screen.

After all, it's not very productive to stare at a progress dialog for 2
hours while you are downloading an Ubuntu .iso over a slow link...  ;-)


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Jan Claeys