[Goodies-dev] use of gtk progress bar in panel plugins

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at corsac.net
Mon Nov 5 13:47:55 CET 2007


On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:14:11PM +0000, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> The thing is, quite a few plugins use progress bar to display information, and
> I don't think it's a really good idea. Progress bar are meant to display
> transitional informations, not permanent ones. And the way gtk implements it
> make them quite cpu intensive (it may depend on the gtk engines, though).

And, yes, for the record, it's way better without animated progress bars...
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Yves-Alexis Perez



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