Dave Miner wrote:
> Sarah Jelinek wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dave Miner wrote:
>>> Niall Power wrote:
>>>  
>>>> I don't see a need to have a unique message for each of the 5 
>>>> activities. I'd reduce it down to 3 messages (or perhaps even 2 by 
>>>> skipping 1):
>>>>
>>>> 1. Determining required components for installation
>>>> 2. Installing from live CD media
>>>> 3. Performing post installation configuration
>>>>
>>>>     
>> For Dwarf we had these three things. The changes for the items Niall 
>> noted are in the transfer module, which handles its own callbacks.
>>
>> I agree that we shouldn't display things like 'fixing zero length 
>> files'. I don't think the fix would be too difficult, we could just 
>> rename the milestones Postinstallation or something like that.
>>
>
> I would prefer that the logs accurately described the function that 
> was going on, because they're a support interface as much as anything. 
> Ephemeral progress messages in a GUI don't benefit as much from being 
> specific, so making them different is the solution I think works best.
I agree. What I was trying to say was that we could modify the callback 
data displayed in the gui without affecting the ability to log the 
actual progress milestones more specifically.

sarah
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> Dave
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