Re: [Bug-wget] [RFC] Reverse scrolling direction

[Darshit Shah]

On 11/27, Darshit Shah wrote:
> A couple of days ago, Giuseppe suggested (on IRC) that maybe we should 
> reverse the direction in which the filename in the progressbar 
> scrolls.
>
> His reasoning was that the last part of the file is the most important 
> for most people / use cases. This use case is recursive retrieval 
> where once you're a couple levels deep, actually knowing the filename 
> could be difficult with the current scrolling mechanism.
>
> I've attached a patch which reverses the direction of the scrolling. 
> The patch is currently only a proof of concept and will be changed and 
> cleaned for the final version. However, I'd like everyone's views on 
> the direction of scrolling and how it looks reversed. I believe that 
> after reversing it, the progress bar may be more useful in a recursive 
> retrieval, but looks a lot worse.
>
> My suggestion is to add another option to the --progress=bar switch, 
> something like this:
> --progress-bar:rtol and --progress=bar:ltor for switching between the 
> two scrolling styles, with rtol (Right to Left) being the default.

Any updates / suggestions / reviews on this topic?

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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