[packagekit] Fix show percentage in Katja backend during download

[Matthias Klumpp]

2014-12-08 16:07 GMT+01:00 Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa at gmail.com>:
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> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 8 December 2014 at 14:51, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Richard, many thanks for the answer, in my opinion it is way more
>> > logical
>> > to have it for each task showing the percentage of the completion of
>> > task.
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>> Why is that more logical? If you provide multiple 0->100% phases then
>> you also need to provide a percentage report of how many phases there
>> are going to be. The frontend just needs to know if the task is
>> completely done, or half done, or only just started. Per-package
>> progress can be communicated using ItemProgress.
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> For me its way more easy to understand at which point of some phase
> something was done.
> If I have 10 packages and in the download of the fourth package has gone the
> connection
> its better to know it was at 40% rather than at 25% or any arbitrary number
> divided by the
That's what you use ItemProgress for - the UI is free to show the item
progress or not though, so maybe your PK client just doesn't display
that information?
Cheers,
    Matthias