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["Scott E. Armitage" <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> If we do it at the Unity level, then it's one-progress-per-app, and I
> agree with your 5, the App should decide which progress to show, or
> amalgamate them into a single one ("you have n things downloading,
> overall you are 54% done" is not unreasonable).
>

Not unreasonable at all; it is a limited space we're working with, and you
don't want to inundate the user with information overload. This is supposed
to be a quick reference to see when an app is done something, not an overall
system progress monitor.

-S


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