Re: Some feedback

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Pat Suwalski wrote:
> Radu Olaru wrote:
>   
> > step. Copying dialog, Package Update progress dialog and so on. My 
> > suggestion would be to make a small applet responsable of showing every 
> > background task's progress and cut down every progress dialog. This way 
> > the whole desktop will be cleaner and less windows will pop when you 
> > least expect. If it's a background job, why displaying it's progress in 
> >     
>
> This is interesting. So you are suggesting a sort of menu, perhaps 
> similar to NetworkManagers that simply drops down a list of combined 
> progress bars?
>
> That would be a very cool feature, though it would require GTK (or 
> something) to have a common interface for percentage setting and 
> communicating it over dbus.
>
> Anyone else think this would be an interesting approach?
>   

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Andrew