Hi David, David Lawyer wrote: > When downloading the orange progress bar at the very bottom of the screen > moves slowly across the screen. The letters on it are hard to read when > the orange progress bar is from say 0 to 50% across the screen due to the > poor color contrast of the blue on orange.
This is bascially https://bugs.debian.org/418361 which recently has been closed as non-actionable. The actual colors depend on the terminal aptitude runs on, i.e. they're yellow (I usually use uxterm) for me unless I use it on the linux console. > The right part of this line is white on blue with high contrast and > ones eyes expect this high contrast on the first (left) part of this > line too. I wonder if we could find a more suitable color combination for the left part, though, with a higher contrast on all terminals. > There's another problem with this orange progress bar. If one has a large > download (mine was 300 MB) and a slow modem (mine is 2.88 KB/sec) the > orange part of the bar appears stationary and one may think it's a bug and > shouldn't be there. > > My proposed solution is to just eliminate the moving orange progress bar > on the bottom line and keep this line with white letters on a blue > background. Since the % downloaded is clearly shown in white on blue, > there's no need for a moving overall progress bar which is much less > accurate to read than the numerical value in %. I disagree here. IMHO the progress helps a lot to get a idea on where we are with just a glance instead of having to read and parse the percentage. I'd even say the progress bar is more important than the actual number. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
