Description of problem: The pirut dialog during downloads tries to fit the URL of the downloading package into the progress bar. In practice the URL rarely fits into the given space so it just looks goofy. I'm not arguing against change, but is this really helping the desktop user in some way? I'd think just having the legent "Downloading <package_name>" is sufficient. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.3.18-1.fc8
It's not in the progress bar any more, which makes it a little better. The problem with just showing the package name is when downloading, eg, the metadata for a set of repositories, it's helpful to know where things are downloading from.
Right, but: 1. As of the night before last, the display still couldn't show the URI correctly because of width issues. So doesn't that defeat the point a bit? and... 2. If this is a desktop user tool, do we expect them to do something with that information? I suppose they could report it, but how and where? Surely we don't expect them to open a terminal and "killall -SIGFOO pirut". I'm playing a bit of devil's advocate here, but you get the point. I guess this would make more sense if there were a progress text area that would become openable (i.e. an optional expand-O-box arrow) only in the event of a failed HTTP get. Even then, though, I'm curious what the goal is.
The main reason has been people wanting to have a better idea of what's going on. But you've convinced me that it's probably overkill and so nuked from CVS, will be in 1.3.20