Comment 3 for bug 401033

I'm using the Chromium browser (available from Software-Center). Chromium shows the progress of the upload in percent in the lower right corner of the window. However, I'm hoping for an advanced upload progress-bar in U1. For examples like the ones in GMail when you drop a file into the attachement area. Of course, the upload progress bar should not use Flash. There are solution in HTML/JavaScript out there, e.g. http://sourceforge.net/projects/uber-uploader/ . The current "progress bar" in U1 does not inform about the progress, it's merely an animated image. On the other hand it may well be that a progress bar is considered as "distracting". As far as I know this is the reason why there is no information about ongoing activities in U1 on the Ubuntu desktop which commonly leads to only partly uploaded files because users shutdown the system and do not wait for an upload to finish.