[MERGE] no-flicker progress bars

[Aaron Bentley]

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Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On 6/21/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Here's a patch for progress bars that hides progress indicators until at
>> least 1 second has passed.  This eliminates the flicker we've been
>> seeing with that 'reading knit index' message, but works pretty well
>> with longer operations like "merge", too.
> 
> On a related note, I think the progress phase stuff is a little
> confusing. Because of the way the numbering is done, we often have the
> progress bar sitting there saying "phase 0/x", which I think some
> people might take to mean "nothing's happening yet". I think it'd be
> better if it said "phase 1/x".

Yeah, I agree.

I feel like we're still feeling our way around with this progress stuff.
 Another biggie is that showing "phase 1/x" instead of "fetching
revision 234 of 563" isn't very helpful.  When I implemented overall
progress, I wanted to make sure the bar was constant-width, and that was
the only way that came to mind.

What would you think of this?


\ [==========                ] fetch revision 234 of 563 (33% overall)

Aaron
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