From: Andy Parkins Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:23:01 GMT Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable) Message-ID: <200612141123.02346.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thursday 2006 December 14 10:51, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > If I have the choice between a "doing something" bar and a Windows > Explorer "14 seconds left" bar showing the same message for two minutes, > I'd rather have a Mars bar ;-) Gahhhhhhhhh! Oh how I hate that window. On this we can wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately it's not just windows; most applications that have a progress bar go like this: 0%, ..., 0%,..., 0%,.., 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 33%, ..., 33%, ..., 33%, 35, 36, 85%, ..., 85%, ..., 85%, ..., 99%, 100%, ..., 100%, ... (yes, I'm completely finished, but still working), ... 100%. I reckon, unless the window with a progress bar in it has an ETA, then the progress should be an ETA itself. If it's not going to monotonically increase, then the "percentage" is meaningless. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE