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

[Gordon Tyler]

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Gordon Tyler wrote:
> 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.

lp:~doxxx/bzr/simple-progress-view

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