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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Feel question
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       2000-02-29 21:24:07
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So, in the end, the question is: should it BE fast, or FEEL fast? It's a
> > tough choice :-)
> 
> Make it *be* fast. But add intelligence to the show()/hide() method of the
> progressbar. If the first value transmitted by the loader signal to the
> progressbar's slot (or the slot that shows the bar, in fact :-) is very
> hight, don't show yet the bar. Wait for a second signal and if this is
> "100%" (or very near :-) forget about the bar (anyways this means the user
> has already what he wanted). Otherwise, show the bar with the proper
> value.
> 
> 
> Of course you have to decide and experiment thresholds: above what value
> of the signal is it ignored? (50%? Perhaps. If the first signal announces
> 50%, then good chances are the loading finishes before the next signal
> comes)
> 
> Big problem. If you don't get percents of the loading process, or even
> worse, if you don't know how much would be to get loaded in the end ....

Here I'm lucky, there is only one download in a newsreader of which you
don't know the length :-)

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