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Nixnote - A clone of Evernote for Linux
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"Download n% completed" message disappears from status bar #457

Open jbrains opened 6 years ago

jbrains commented 6 years ago

When synchronizing notes the first time, that's a long-running job. Seeing clear progress reporting really helps, especially first-time users who don't know what to expect.

The "Download n% complete" message shows up on the status bar, but then disappears after some time or some event, I'm not sure which. When the status bar remains empty for more than a few seconds while a long-running job is running, it becomes difficult to tell the difference between "running" and "stopped". If there is some way to make status reporting more persistently visible, that would really help.

I don't know enough about Qt-based applications to know whether this is a common limitation from Qt or something that we could reasonably try to improve in this application. I'd even be willing to dive in and try to improve things if someone else would suggest a sound strategy.

robert7 commented 6 years ago

Yes, I know about this problem and its also annoying to me. Its not only in first sync, but also when e.g. "sync error" happens.. and other situations. So I definitely want to fix this, I'm now yet sure how. But it should be one of "next steps".

jbrains commented 6 years ago

@robert7 Thanks for that. I don't know when I can take a look. I suppose that will depend on how frequently this causes me pain. :)