Chris Cunningham wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
If you would ask me (yeah nobody asking me, by i will tell anyways ;) ) how the indication of a progress of some process should look like, here's my potential answer:
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- no stupid nesting.. i don't care what happens inside of something else happens.. if it is really necessary, i would just replace the title of a task with it's subtask title while it performing. this is just about first rule: it has to be a single line, not a bunch of lines stocking one over another.. i think this is abuse.
most of the times, i just need a notion of progress of a whole thing, not progress of it's subthings
I have cases where I have multiple background processes going on that occassionally wake up, and in that case, I really, really appreciate the stacking progress bars - I can tell that one (or more) background processes have kicked off. This isn't quite 'nesting', although I think it uses some of the same features.
As long as some result out of this discussion doesn't remove that capability, I agree with what you are saying.
-Chris
The "number" of simultaneous progress bars could be displayed next to a single one showing in a bottom status/task bar - and a hover of them would expand to show them all.