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[Jim Rorie <jfrorie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why not?  I would think they share similar characteristics.  Long
duration, point-to-point movement of blocks of data, asynchronous
operation, worthy of notification when completed.

Seems like a slick solution to problems that are a bit of a mish-mash.


Things that would be questionable to me would be a render operation that
takes like five minutes.  Something that exists completely withing the
CPU.  But maybe a case could be made there too.



On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:38 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> I think the idea of an aggregated "downloads" indicator has merit.
> 
> I'm not sure about other long-running processes, like a copy-to-network
> or burn-cd action.
>