Behaviour of system tray bandwidth indicator

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 09:25 +0100, Lukas Middendorf wrote:
> On 20/03/14 18:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I'm not saying it can do anything about it, I'm saying it should not be
> > misleading. It claims to show transfer bandwidth and time to completion,
> > but both are egregiously wrong. As I suggested earlier it should tell
> > the user that these indicators are not reliable when the target is a
> > remote server.
> 
> As I already wrote earlier, this is not limited to remote servers but 
> also applies to slow (removable) local storage (usb key drives, mobile 
> phones working as UMD, etc.) with the usually huge write caches you get 
> for current-day systems. It never is accurate when some kind of write 
> caching or buffering is involved, but for the named cases it is clearly 
> noticeable.

I agree, and I repeat that the user should have some indication of this.
Either that or just eliminate the indicator entirely if it's not giving
useful information (or rather reduce it to a simple flag that the
transfer hasn't completed yet).

poc