[packagekit] Packagekit information

Vladimir Melo vladimirmelo.psi at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 16:26:31 PDT 2008


2008/10/5 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>

> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:39 -0300, Vladimir Melo wrote:
> > Packagekit is really easy, but I miss some information like download
> > speed and estimated time. I don't know if my download is coming or
> > not, for example.
>
> We've got time to completion, but not really any download speed. I'm not
> sure it's useful.
>
> > Are you planning to add this kind of information soon?
>
> Time is tricky. Estimating time is even harder. If you look at the
> PkTime code you'll see that there is lots of code to do the estimation,
> but nothing works well.
>

I was talking to my friend (he's also developer) and we think progress,
estimated time and total size of package are very important informations. He
was invited to take a look at the code and help with an idea. Unfortunately
(in this case), my help is only translations.

See you,
Vladimir Melo
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