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I agree there should be visual feedback, but maybe more of a compromise. E.g. bundle all unzip tasks into 1 single progress bar and rotate text strings for info
by hbosch 10y ago
I agree there should be visual feedback, but maybe more of a compromise. E.g. bundle all unzip tasks into 1 single progress bar and rotate text strings for informing which task is underway.
The "dancing" modal is quite ridiculous.
- nayuki 10y agoThis is basically what happens in third-party tools. For example if you use 7-Zip on Windows to unzip multiple archives, there is only one progress window and progress bar, and it will display the names of each archive being extracted one after another.
- wruza 10y agoIf operation takes more than human's average reaction time, progress should be shown. Usually 250ms. Jef Raskin and others wrote a bookshelf about that a decade ago, but I still see strange solutions everywhere.
- aidenn0 10y agoIn this case it's showing a 24 progress bars each for an item that takes less than 1ms.