Progress bar could be more friendly by telling user to "make tea" for long operations.

Bug #917269 reported by Tudor Holton
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
plymouth (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

It would be nice if the plymouth progress bar could make a rough time estimate and then provide some text advising the user. Currently it progresses in percentages, and the user has to estimate time relative to the percentage.

For example, on a machine with 1TB of disk space, a file system check at boot can take several minutes. In such long periods it would be nice to tell the user it will be "a few minutes" or even go so far as to say to "Enough time to make a cup of your favourite hot beverage" or some such.

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Tudor Holton (tudor) wrote :

If the texts for these time advisory notices were in a text file somewhere then it could be part of a theme so that different sentences could be used for different languages or environments.

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Tudor Holton (tudor) wrote :

I'm pretty sure this is a wishlist item, but for some reason launchpad won't let me mark it as such.

Adam Conrad (adconrad)
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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