[gnome-devel-docs] HIG - tweak the progress bar page
- From: Allan Day <allanday src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-devel-docs] HIG - tweak the progress bar page
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:02:29 +0000 (UTC)
commit daa124fcaa0a7f834a788ee6b7f328053f61ec36
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date: Mon Sep 29 14:02:04 2014 +0100
HIG - tweak the progress bar page
hig/C/progress-bars.page | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/hig/C/progress-bars.page b/hig/C/progress-bars.page
index 03c5613..e06440f 100644
--- a/hig/C/progress-bars.page
+++ b/hig/C/progress-bars.page
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@
<section id="sub-tasks">
<title>Sub-tasks</title>
-<p>If a task is comprised of multiple asynchronous sub-tasks (such as downloading several files
simultaneously), it is generally advisable to show a single progress bar which indicates composite progress
for the overall task. However, there are some situations where this might not be the case:</p>
+<p>If a task is comprised of multiple sub-tasks (such as downloading several files simultaneously), it is
generally advisable to show a single progress bar which indicates composite progress for the overall task.
However, there are some situations where this might not be the case:</p>
<list>
-<item><p>If it is genuinely useful for the user to know progress on individual tasks.</p></item>
+<item><p>If it is genuinely useful for the user to know progress within each individual sub-task. (As an
alternative, completion of each sub-task can be indicated with progress text.)</p></item>
<item><p>If it might be necessary to pause or stop a sub-task (see the <link
xref="#general-guidelines">general guidelines</link> on this, below).</p></item>
<item><p>If sub-tasks are already indicated in your application's user interface. In this case, it can be
less disruptive to show a progress for each item inline.</p></item>
</list>
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