Re: Progress bars

["Michael Beurskens" <Michael Beurskens uni-duesseldorf de>]

> When multiple progress-bar using windows are going to be popping up one
> after the other, there should be a dialog with two progress bars, one
> for the immediate job, and one for the individual items:
>
> -----------------------------
> |Getting package information|
> |[XXXXXXX                  ]|
> |                           |
> |Downloading file6.rdf...   |
> |[XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX   ]|
> |(Rate & ETA if applicable) |
> -----------------------------
>
> This top bar can either be a calculation based on the addition of the
> eventual values of all of the smaller progress bars (which may not be
> available at creation time) or simply a counter from 0 to the total
> number of smaller progressions ... for 6 downloads, have it jump 6 equal
> steps for some form of representation at all.
>
> Does anybody else think this is a reasonable request?

Yes, I completely agree.
It would be even better, if it could show what percentage of the whole
operation is currently shown in the individual progress bar (eg. "File 1
(100K) of download (1 Gigabyte) 90% done")...

And it should be an addition of eventual values wherever possible (eg. a 100
KB download is much faster than a 4 MB download...)
Simply having a counter would be more irritating than helpful (think of 5
100 KB downloads and 1 4 MB download - the "top bar" would show 90% done
after the 5 smaller files, but the final part would take MUCH longer than
all previous downloads added up).

Michael