test 3 installation comments/questions

[Garrett LeSage]

Edward C. Bailey wrote:

>>>>>>"msf" == Michael Fulbright <msf at redhat.com> writes:
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>...
>msf> I do agree there is the issue of how do you let the user know the
>msf> installer hasn't fallen over. I got rid of the individual package
>msf> progress bar because it basically flashes left to right in about 1
>msf> seconds for 90% of the packages and is visually noisy.  Perhaps there
>msf> is another way to give intra-package feedback I haven't thought of.
>
>All it needs to be is some sort of throbber that's tickled by the
>individual packages' "percent-installed" indicator.  Cycle the color map on
>a chunk of screen real estate, move a second hand around the face of a
>stopwatch, whatever -- it just needs to show some sign of life as each
>package install proceeds...
>  
>

Well, there is the newly designed spinner (as seen in Nautilus and 
rhgb)...  (:

Garrett