Joey Hess wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:25:34AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > It has not started, but it can be finished very fast when specifications > > > are written. There are several problems with this frontend: > > > * As you wrote in another message, progress bars are unreadable on > > > dumb terminals. Maybe replacing \r by \n is enough? > > > > Yes, it produces many output but should be acceptable. > > Hmm, depending on the terminal type, it may work to just print one line. > I'm thinking of something like this: > > Scanning hardware..10%..20%..30%..40%..50%.. > > If the terminal uses line buffered output, this won't work; if it can > display new parts of a line as they are written (and flushed), it might > be better. It should also be reasonably usable with screen readers. > > Note that "Scanning hardware" is the constant title, not the progress > bar text. > > -- > see shy jo > >
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