[packagekit] pkcon progressbar display

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Sat Feb 23 07:20:12 PST 2008


On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:07:17 +0100
Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:08 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > Looks like displaying the 'downloading/installing' stuff doesn't
> > agree with the progressbar.
> 
> Do we want to have a live transaction status update or just display
> what we did after the transaction is complete?

Well, can we do:
Downloading [package name or # of packages]:
[Progressbar]
Installing [package name or # of packages]:
[Progressbar]
Complete [or 'Failed' + error message]

?

That tells the user what's going on, and gives him feedback as to how
far it has progressed.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
Red Hat, Inc.

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