Paul W. Frields wrote:
A note on the supposedly useless interface -- my question is, why do
people care so much about a progress bar anyway? When I get an update
alert, I right-click, tell the system to install updates, and go about
my work. I don't care what the download speed is, since there are
usually things I care about more like the activity I'm busy with
already. When the updates are done, if it's important I'll get a
notifier about restarting my session or the system.
I just installed Fedora 11 and there are 400 updates available. I use a
dial-up connection in a part of town
where I get an average of 2.9 kilobytes per second (bad phone lines). So
when something is downloading that generally puts a halt on using the
internet connection until the download is finished. I like to know what
is being downloaded so that I can prioritize the downloads and know how
long the internet connection will be tied up. For me feedback and
control of the process is a good thing.
Somewhere I read that 60% of the internet connections in the USA are
considered broadband connections. That means that 40% of us are still
walking down the information super highway.
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