On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:00:18AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:26:25AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: > > > > I object because the dots show movement, but lose information on how > > many more dots are needed till it finishes, especially when I have a > > screenful of dots. > > I changed it because having a long list of numbers output quickly is > neither user-friendly, nor useful. The old code was also double-spacing > on many terminal emulaters (eg from sysinst on a serial console). > > As a 'something is still happening' outputting dots and numbers have > much the same value, except that with dots the command itself is > unlikely to scroll off the screen. > > Naive users are also likely to wonder what all the numbers mean - after > all you'll never want all of them! Although the first few could be deemed > useful. > > Scaling so that no more than one line of dots is output could be done... > > Adding an option to control the output is just option bloat. I think there was more than enough discussion on this thread to indicate that there are different opinions. Please revert this and the next, related change until there is some concensus. I personally much prefer the original code, though i think a progress bar would be a fine option. Take care, Bill
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