[systemd-devel] eye of cylon / timeout timer is cut off

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Thu Aug 14 10:20:33 PDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 06:44:03PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2014-08-14 18:36 GMT+02:00 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>:
> > It would be more useful to remove the "/ 1min 30s" part. Maybe the cylon
> > code could be smart enough for that.
> 
> I think it's useful information to know that the timeout is 90s.
> An alternative could be, to simply use seconds and not convert that
> into h:m:s values.
> A "77s / 90s" display would be ok to me.

What I meant is to skip the limit only where there is a shortage of space.
But thinking about it again, it is hard to say which is more important. So
maybe it is better to instead display the time remaining, like -33s, -32s, -31s...
when columns() <= 80.

Zbyszek


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