Re: Word-a-Day: progress bar, progress indicator

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 30 Apr 2008, at 17:03, Shaun McCance wrote:

> As with any notification, Banshee's notifications go
> away automatically after some number of seconds.  But
> they have this countdown disk that shows you how long
> it will be before they disappear.  This actually makes
> me feel less rushed, because I know how much time I
> have to hit it.  Without the disk, I would feel like
> I have to drop what I'm doing and hit it *right now*,
> because it could disappear any second.

Getting back to whether "progress disk" is a useful term, I don't know  
about Banshee's implementation, but potentially such an indicator  
might be themeable anyway.  In which case it may not look like a  
'disk' at all for any given user, which suggests that it might be  
better just to stick with the more generic 'indicator' as far as  
possible.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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