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Re: GTK frontend, global progressbas support proposed



On mar, 2005-05-17 at 08:22 +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> Some days ago colin watson suggested to introduce in the PROGRESS 
> protocol the possibility to have more than one progressbar: "it would be 
> interesting to have a global progress bar indicating the progress of the 
> whole installation (roughly, your position in the main menu)."
> I strongly support colin's idea: a global progressbar could be very 
> useful and could improve used friendlyness of the installer very much.
> For my thesis i've been asked to implement green/red checkmarks aside 
> the main menu buttons to keep track of already configured steps : tought 
> this can surely be done i think it would be better to introduce the 
> global progress bar colin suggested.
> 
> what do you think about it?

I think that a global progress bar could bring to a user a good feeling
about the installer. IMHO, i could be a good visual element to include.

I've test all your work attilio, it's fantastic. I've problem with my
laptop, but in a PIII 800Hz works really nice. Where would you put the
global bar? at top or bottom?

> ciao
> 
> attilio
> 
> 
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