Re: [gtk-list] PROPOSAL : Progress bar

[Andreas Bombe <andreasb munich netsurf de>]

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Gerald Combs - Unicom Communications wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Stefan Jeske wrote:
> 
> > I'm just working on making the progress bar more flexible, and would like
> > to hear some of your comments.
> 
>   I'd like to see an "open-ended" progress indicator, which could be used
> to show activity when an application is processing data, but the exact
> amount of data is unknown.
> 
>   The progress bar at the bottom of Netscape's browser window shows a good
> example of this. It shows a normal progress indicator if the size of a
> page or image is known.  If the page length is unknown (which seems to be
> the case with CGI output), it draws a square and bounces it from one end
> of the progress bar to the other.  MacOS has something similar, but it
> draws an animated diagonally-striped barber-pole-esque thing.

Maybe the style should be chosen user as it is done in Amiga MUI.  The
Netscape style is called Knight Rider (for obvious reasons :-), but there
is also Star Trek style (two boxes enter from both sides and disappear in
the middle) and several others. 

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