199849 - Add % to accompany progress by default

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Pham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328

I think that % is more useful than the progress bar. Progress bar should be out
by default. % should be in by default.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

Ummm... and why so? (apart from personal preference)

You know that you can choose the percent column and remove the progressmeter by
clicking right of the column headers?

This is a rfe for hiding the progressmeter by default in favor of the
percentage, but I see no reason why it should be a valid one (no reason given
why this behaviour should be preferred and it can be easily changed). Suggesting
INVALID unless there are better reasons coming up than "I think".

Comment 2

[Pham]

Because % is more exact than a progress meter. % saves more space. % would be a
better default. I know I can change it, but I like good defaults.

I don't see this as an enhancement. I see feature requests as enhancements.

Comment 3

[Andreas Kunz]

How is a change of defaults a bug?? I see no error here.
This is an enhancement, at best.

My personal opinion is that images say more than words, in this case: a look at
the progress meter can tell you much faster what you want to know than reading
and interpreting percentages.
I don't know why you want exact values here, but if you really do: the
"Transferred" column is _much_ more exact and actually very much like a
percentage so it looks almost like a duplication of functionality to me.
This is why I like the current defaults.

I could have invalidated this bug, but have decided against it because it's just
a matter of opinion...
...with the bad feeling that nobody really cares to decide and this bug will
needlessly stay open for a long time. (unless somebody just says NO!)
Yes, this is probably a two-line fix and even I could do it easily, but why
should I when I have to expect that tomorrow somebody else comes and gives his
reasons (see above) why it should be changed back?

Comment 4

[Pham]

I see your point. You like visual stuff, and I like reading stuff. Would you
accept this as a good bug if I renamed it to "Place % inside the progress bar"

Comment 5

[Pham]

Attachment: screenshot

Maybe soemthing like this?

Comment 6

[Andreas Kunz]

Sounds better. :-)
But is just as unlikely to be implemented soon because it is not a two-lines fix
at all and nobody seems to be currently working at any (even more serious)
Download Manager issues.
And aren't 19000 out of 20000 open Mozilla bugs more important than this minor
improvement would be?
But it's your bug, decide what to do with it...

Comment 7

[Benedikt Kantus]

Why not include both columns by default? The percentage column doesn't take too
much place, so it would be possible to include both.

Comment 8

[Pham]

Don't know. I also made http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198898

Reason I'm filing these is to reduce download manager's width.

Comment 9

[Pham]

Download Manager is still small. I'll just rename this bug.

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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