[Edbrowse-dev] progress of download feature

[Edbrowse-dev] progress of download feature

[Karl Dahlke]

Well as I say it's not so much for me, but others,
so you can drive it.

Please comment on possible UI

Base command is pd, which means progress of download
or print dots, as you prefer.

pdq  quiet, no feedback
pdd print dots as is done today, one per megabyte
pdp print download by percents, like fsck does and many other programs.
pdc print the byte count amount/total 100 times on approximate percent boundaries
or would you prefer 7/235 7 megabytes out of 235 megabytes, at a fixed rate?


Karl Dahlke

Re: [Edbrowse-dev] progress of download feature

[Adam Thompson]

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On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 02:27:44PM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Well as I say it's not so much for me, but others,
> so you can drive it.

Ok, thanks.

> Please comment on possible UI
> 
> Base command is pd, which means progress of download
> or print dots, as you prefer.
> 
> pdq  quiet, no feedback
> pdd print dots as is done today, one per megabyte
> pdp print download by percents, like fsck does and many other programs.
> pdc print the byte count amount/total 100 times on approximate percent boundaries
> or would you prefer 7/235 7 megabytes out of 235 megabytes, at a fixed rate?

Probably the latter. My main issue with percentages is with large files where
the percentages can take a while to update,
so I'd rather see the size based update at a fixed rate,
that way I can see if the download's stauled for some reason.
I do lots of work over VPNs etc where this happens depressingly often.

Cheers,
Adam.

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