[Bug 917269] [NEW] Progress bar could be more friendly by telling user to "make tea" for long operations.

[Tudor Holton]

Public bug reported:

It would be nice if the plymouth progress bar could make a rough time
estimate and then provide some text advising the user.  Currently it
progresses in percentages, and the user has to estimate time relative to
the percentage.

For example, on a machine with 1TB of disk space, a file system check at
boot can take several minutes.    In such long periods it would be nice
to tell the user it will be "a few minutes" or even go so far as to say
to "Enough time to make a cup of your favourite hot beverage" or some
such.

** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: fsck progressbar time

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Title:
  Progress bar could be more friendly by telling user to "make tea" for
  long operations.

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It would be nice if the plymouth progress bar could make a rough time
  estimate and then provide some text advising the user.  Currently it
  progresses in percentages, and the user has to estimate time relative
  to the percentage.

  For example, on a machine with 1TB of disk space, a file system check
  at boot can take several minutes.    In such long periods it would be
  nice to tell the user it will be "a few minutes" or even go so far as
  to say to "Enough time to make a cup of your favourite hot beverage"
  or some such.

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