[Aptitude-devel] Bug#803980: Bug#803980: Aptitude text interface has poor color contrast on overall progress bar (when downloadng)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending
Control: found -1 aptitude/0.7.2-1


Hi,

2015-11-03 21:22 Axel Beckert:
>
>> 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.

Right, so I made a new style for this with white as the text colour, for
higher contrast, let's see if it helps.


>> 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.

I also think that it's useful.  Even if occasionally it's not very
useful due to the disparity between download size and speed, that's
generally not the case, so no need to remove it just because of that
problem.

When it moves fast enough you can notice it in the peripheral version
even if not actively paying attention to the number/progress, as in "OK,
so the download is progressing fast and it will be ready in a few
seconds".


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>