Description of problem: The downloading packages dialog is a little sparse with regard to feedback. The following additions to the dialog might make it a lot more user friendly 1. An indication of how many packages are being downloaded and how many have been downloaded so far. 2. An indication of what package is currently being downloaded and how big it is. It might be interesting to see if you could actually have two progress bars, one for the current package and one for the total of all the downloads. While the sparse dialog is suitable for one of two packages with a fast connection, people with slower connections who are downloading a lot of packages (and dependencies) may be left wondering if anything is actually happening. Something needs to be done to give more visual feedback that something is actually happening. (In my case I'm on a 256/64 ADSL connection and I'm downloading enough packages that I can't be sure the progress bar has moved while I've typed out this bug report.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pirut-1.3.25-2.fc8
And in connection with bug 426448, showing the file download information would be helpful too.
This isn't going to get changed at this point as pirut is pretty much entirely EOL'd and only getting critical fixes for older releases. In Fedora 9 and later, any such concerns can be filed against PackageKit/gnome-packagekit.