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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 15.08.14 10:22, Harald Hoyer (harald.hoyer at gmail.com) wrote:

> On 14.08.2014 19:20, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> ^this :)

Instead of making this context sensitive, for simplicity reasons: why
not just always show the negative time?

Lennart

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