Feature request

[Søren Theilgaard]

On mandag, december 17, 2001, at 04:40 , Paul Buckley wrote:

> What progress details do people want to be appraised of in real time 
> all the time? This discussion seems to assume that having a progress 
> bar at all is a given.
> Personally, the rotating arrows are enough for me (although there's no 
> alternate if text only buttons are used); if something seems to be 
> wrong, I'd rather pull up a panel with lots of information and some 
> history.
>
> are things happening? -- arrows
> how much is left?     -- barber pole/clock/etc
> what's the current process? -- existing progress bar
> is something stuck?   -- some  kind of visual alert/pop-up of process 
> panel/etc (may need to set timeouts)
>
Most often the rotating arrows is enough for me too.

Maybe the best place would be to create some kind of task window like in 
Mail or Entourage, that way the user can select to show this window or 
not.


Yours Sincerely

Søren Theilgaard