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

[Gordon Tyler]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> I have one specific idea which I could do today, in between piloting:
> hide the progress bar and just show a spinner, plus the network
> indicators, plus the nerdy text.  The progress bar is not in practice
> a good indicator of overall progress until the code that feeds it is
> updated, so maybe it's better of hidden?  It sounds like people would
> generally prefer that.

I actually have a branch where I was working on exactly that. I can
publish it if you're interested.

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