On Friday 28 October 2005 10:24, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Shall the progressbar be NEWT-like (title above it, current action > below it) or GNOME HIG-compliant (current action displayed inside the > progressbar, title displayed above it) ? I do hope that the people who are voting for Gnome HIG-compliant have actually tested the graphical installer before giving their opinion. I feel that displaying messages inside the progress bar may not be the best choice here because: - some of the messages are quite long - some are shown only for a very short time - having them centered in the progress bar makes them jump around a lot, which is very distracting and makes them even less readable then they are in the newt front end where they are right/left aligned. I feel having messages in a progress bar is fine if they are something like: initializing - configuring - installing - finishing and stay visible for a while. But when they are: downloading and installing package <very long package name with version> it becomes a lot less obvious to do it that way. Maybe it is a design problem in d-i, but OTOH it _is_ what the GTK frontend will have to work with for the time being... Christian, what do you say as our professional user-interface guy? Cheers, FJP
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