mixdown progressbar is not HIG-compliant

[Jeff Fortin Tam]

the current progress dialog looks like this:
http://public.ecchi.ca/jokosher-mixdown-progressbar.png

it should look like this:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/images/progress-window.png (exact dimensions and information here http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/windows-progress.html)

To achieve this level of user interface nirvana you need to:
- remove the separator
- make the progressbar full width
- add some <big>Title</big>\nand a short description of what is going on.

"The seconds out of $total" counter seems very strange to me, as the seconds are not separate entities that the user will have in the end (it will be one coherent chunk). Therefore I would suggest using percentage, and adding an estimated time of completion. It would look like this: "37% completed, about 5 minutes left".

[Vinicius Depizzol (vdepizzol)]

This is the glade proposal of the dialog.

[Vinicius Depizzol (vdepizzol)]

I did some modifications in the file, grouping the title and descriptions in one widget. And also the widgets are using the same ID names of the actual jokosher.glade.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

I looked at it again today. The dialog is better, but there's still room for improvement in the text that is shown in the progress bar: it currently says "45% of 3934 seconds completed", which looks a bit strange. I would recommend simply something like "About %s remaining", where %s is the rendering time left in a human-readable format ("1 hour and 55 minutes", "4 minutes", "3 minutes and 54 seconds").

Here's some example code of what I mean: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=131094&action=view (patch part of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575955)

What I'm saying is that when rendering an audio timeline, you usually don't care at which second out of the total you are, and you don't actually need the percentage (because the progressbar itself gives you a rough visual indication). The only useful thing I could see there is a the remaining rendering/mixdown time.