Bug#592235: debian-installer: Add a working indicator in the progress bars dialogs

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hello,

Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (perezmeyer@gmail.com):
> > Some progress dialogs (like the progress bar when formating media) stop for 
> > several seconds and tehre is no other working indicator. Some users think the
> > system has hanged. 
> > 
> > It would be good to have a simple "then system is working" indicator, like some 
> > dots moving or something.
> 
> 
> I'm fairly sure there is nearly no way to do this. The debconf
> progress bar are currently used at their best  but getting good
> progress report when an external program is going to be quite a pain.

When in d-i the partitioner is started, and you have a system without
floppy drive, there is the situation for several seconds, that you have
a complete empty screen (only blue background), and nothing seems to 
happen (this is while the d-i is searching for a floppy drive).

For this situation you get no benefit with the solution provided by 
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (because there is no progress bar
displayed). So you still have the case descripted by Lisandro, that
the user may think the system hangs (ok, ok, this is only for a few
seconds, I know :-) ).

One way I can think of to solve all such situations, would be to 
display a clock in the bottom line of d-i. 
The clock could show the local time (so you have a little benefit
from this) and the displayed seconds sequently changing would be an
indicator, that the system is still working.



Holger

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