Direction character on new progress bar

[Jonathan Gossage]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> The latest version of the progress bar displays all sorts of information:
> [###################-] bzr+ssh >   6181kB     0kB/s | Running
> post_commit hooks [bzr-email] - Stage
>
> Of course, now the progress part takes up a lot of space, and pushes the
> info part to have less-and-less detail. This isn't terrible, but I had
> gotten used to seeing some of the object counts being shown, and I kind
> of miss that.
>
> Anyway, this is mostly about the new direction indicator. I'm not sure
> if < vs > is super clear about which way is read and write. (Inspecting
> the code > is reading.) Also, it seems like it would be better to put it
> on near the B/s portion, since that is the part that it is indicating.
> (It isn't saying we've uploaded a total of 5MB, just that the last 1kB/s
> was a write.)
>
> I don't have great suggestions, I just wanted to note that a couple bits
> could probably be made a little better.
>
> John
> =:->

Anyone who is used to shell programming should be comfortable with < for
read and > for write.

Jonathan