Toolbar Request/Idea

[Bart Cerneels]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 16:16, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  namely expand a compound progress bar
>> (averaging the progress of all running jobs) to show the individual
>> jobs and be able to stop them individually.
>
> Bart is nursing an idea that will take care of this problem by putting
> detailed progress information like that in a browser, he explains it
> much better than I do. I don't want to turn anyone off to it until
> Bart can explain it.

I didn't consider that yet: the inline progresses might be a
replacement for the "sub"-progressbars.
I'll think about it but at first sight I don't think it can, really:
the compound progressbar shows all of them in a list. At best the
inlines show a few in the same browser-category but can't show ex.
podcast download + magnatune db-update at the same time.

>
> However I do not want to de-rail this thread... Bart could you please
> explain it in a ML new thread?
>
> Thomas: But yea, if you can brainstorm a way to neatly show multiple
> simultaneous jobs, that would be super.
>
>> So far I have been against most
>> attempts to remove the statusbar, simply because as far as I am
>> concerned, no one has come up with a viable alternative for the
>> compound progress bar.
>
> Hopefully, that is what this discussion will produce: a viable alternative.
>
> Casey
>