The progress bar that doesn't convey any sense of progress (was Re: ...)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Martin Pool writes:

 > The idea that we should show total_bytes/total_time rather than
 > instantaneous bytes/time is interesting to me.  I find it interesting
 > to see it change over time.

That's because you already know things like about how long it is going
to take to complete.