Bug 166650

Summary: do not use progress bar as capacity indicator in the status bar (minor)
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2008-07-15 19:31:43 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

do not use progress bar as capacity indicator in the status bar (minor)

The issue is I am used (and it is the purpose of it) that progress bar a dynamic widgets -- it shows the "action", not "information" (static). Quite a lot of apps use it in this way in statusbar too (KDevelop for example).

With Dolphin, after start I always wait for progress to "stop loading", I cannot help it, because it is a progress so I (conciously or not) wait for 100%.

Please do not reuse progress bar like that -- at least change the color, in such way that it would a guarantee it won't be mixed with real progress bar.

But I would rather suggest something different also in shape. Even like this

* * o o o o o o

* filled circle
o circle

it cannot (?) be mixed with progress bars.
Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-07-15 21:17:55 UTC 
A new widget will be available in kdelibs for KDE 4.2, which will be used by Dolphin then.
Comment 2 Peter Penz 2008-07-19 12:53:12 UTC 
Dolphin uses now the KCapacityBar widget, which has been added recently for 4.2. Currently there are some minor optical issues with the height and vertical centering of the widget, but this will be resolved quite soon...