Behaviour of system tray bandwidth indicator

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 12:50:05 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 07:36 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 03/21/2014 07:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Disagree, based on my own preference and experience, bad progress is 
> still better than no progress.  really.

Progress can be indicated by an animated GIF without giving meaningless
information. Additionally, the widget could usefully show elapsed time
and effective bandwidth once the transfer has completed, something it
doesn't currently do.

poc



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