KProgress(?) bug

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:08, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:02 pm, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On 2003. February 26., Wednesday 17:22, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> > > That's actually a feature.
> > > See:
> > >
> > > http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/qprogressbar.html#totalSteps-prop
> >
> > If they say it's a feature...
>
> Well, bugs don't usually take effort to implement :-)
>
> The idea is for app that doesn't know how long some calculation takes
> to set the number of steps to 0 and to keep incrementing the progress
> value, which will cause a small indicator to go back and forth,
> indicating that something is going on. Fortunately, I don't believe
> there are any KDE apps that take advantage of that, since the usual
> progressbar is obviously more helpful.

Well, I will probably use it in KMail for async OpenPGP support since 
it's impossible to tell how long gpg/pgp will run.

Regards,
Ingo

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