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[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/11/06, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 18:08 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Can the screen be hidden till completion?
>
> Ok, so what about the user's wanting to know what his system is doing?
> Without a simple "Downloading..." or "Installing/Updating..." message
> and its subsequent progress bar, the user will definitely end up
> wondering what on earth is consuming their downstream bandwidth and/or
> why their system has become somewhat unresponsive (CPU usage due to RPM
> installation).
>
> Also, with no feedback to the user, how does one know that clicking
> "Apply" actually did something? How does he know that the
> downloading/installing is completed and he can therefore safely shutdown
> or hibernate (etc.) his or her machine?


I agree with you - but why did you quote that statement?


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