Uh Clem's Admin World

While installing Notes 8.0.1 today I was reminded how lame most progress bars are.  The Notes 8x install progess bar is one of the worst.  It must go across 50 times during the install! What use is that?

The replication progress bar is just as bad.  It is based on the the number of documents, and doesn't take into account the size of the documents.

The IBM Download Director progress bar is pretty accurate.  It's even multi level.  It shows you the progress of the current file as well as the overall progress of all files.  Now, granted, file download progress bars are much easier to build since all bytes are the same size.

So I guess the problem really lies on trying to report on the progress of processing data chunks of varying size, such as an application install or a replication.   Why hasn't someone figured this out?