[rfc] transport activity locally?

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:33 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> Naively enabling it would tend to give double-counting for
> network->local or local->network operations, therefore giving you
> twice the data and twice the throughput that is really true, but that
> could be fairly easily fixed by showing only the totals for the most
> interesting transport, or something else.

This is a problem for network<->network too though, so its not unique to
local.

> As a fix for pb droppings being left on the screen we no longer show
> activity except when a pb is explicitly active, on the assumption that
> the code will then deal with cleaning it up, which is generally true.
> Trying to show it as a "we're doing something" in all cases would only
> really work when this
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/392435> is fixed.

We often have a pb though; many, if not most of the times it was showing
badly were for things like format files, I think.

-Rob
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