[RFC] Clean up progress bars during fetch

[John Arbash Meinel]

Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:57:27PM -0600 I heard the voice of
> John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
>> I looked into adding it, and I tried adding it in a few places. My
>> favorite is this one:
>>
>> | [=====                       ] 1/6 Finding involved files ( 173/8236)
> 
> I like that as well.
> 
> My second choice would be
> 
>> Bar inbetween:
>> \ 1/6 Finding involved files [======                        ] 1151/8236
> 
> but it's a pretty far second; it suggests more that the 1151/8236 is
> directly related to the bar.
> 
> 
> While we're in here, what about the phase numbering?  I vaguely recall
> hearing at one point that our X/Y was listing Y as the total number of
> phases, but X as a zero-based count of where we are (so at the "End",
> it would be "5/6" or the like), which is somewhat user-tweaking.

Well, there is still a question.. When you get to 6/6 should you be
'done'? So the only thing you would see processing in 5/6.

But yeah, right now it is all 0-based. (as is the second half 1151/8236).

Or would you rather see it saying:

\ [======================  ] 6/6 Copying frizbans ( 10/100)

Another possibility would be to always describe the phase, so we would
do something like:

\ [================  ] Phase 6/6 Copying frizbans ( 10/100)

I kind of like adding 'Phase'. Maybe I should change it so the child
update message shows up along with its xx/yyy progress.

I'll play around with that.

John
=:->

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