Ubuntu
usb-creator package

Progress window doesn't give time estimate

Bug #333051 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: usb-creator

The process of making a USB startup disk involves writing a known amount of data to a device at near-constant speeds. Therefore it should be feasible to present a reasonable estimate, in the progress window, of how long the process will take to finish, e.g. "Time remaining: about 7 minutes".

This could replace the current percentage complete text (which is pretty much redundant with the progress bar).

Revision history for this message
to be removed (liw) wrote :

http://files.liw.fi/temp/usb-creator.remaining-time

the above bzr branch has the beginnings of a remaining time estimator. It is not entirely complete: I only hooked it up to one place where I/O happens, and it needs to be hooked to every place.

Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package usb-creator - 0.2.0

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usb-creator (0.2.0) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Roderick B. Greening ]
  * Add a KDE frontend.
  * Updated packaging
    - bump to debhelper 7
    - bump standards version
    - add usb-creator-kde package
    - split usb-creator into usb-creator-gtk and usb-creator-common
      - usb-creator-common conflict/replaces old usb-creator
    - add transitional package for usb-creator and rename old
      usb-creator to usb-creator-gtk
    - update man pages
    - update install files according to new split
    - update setup.py to look for data files (better for portability)
    - update desktop files
  * Update pot files for kde addition and gtk transition
  * Added KDE Icon and renamed GTK one
  * Added a 'Syncing' media message to install.py (syncing takes a while and app sits at 99%)

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Add a simplistic estimator of the remaining time. Thanks Lars
    Wirzenius (LP: #333051).
  * Go back to the Intrepid behavior of using MB precision for the persistent
    storage size.
  * Add raw disk image support. Thanks Bruno Dilly for the progress logic.
  * Change the wording on the reboot message slightly to ease confusion.
    Thanks Andrew Keyes.
  * Add unittest support.
  * Use the logging module, rather than a custom logging class.
  * Raise exceptions in backend.popen rather than parsing a tuple returned
    from it.
  * Add icons for CD images and raw disk images.
  * Support drag and drop of CD images and raw disk images.
  * Completely refactor the backend and gtk_frotend code.
  * Use HAL where possible to unmount partitions in order to avoid races.
  * Handle HAL not running and other errors when usb-creator is started.
  * Properly connect to the system bus.
  * Get mountpoints directly from HAL as needed, rather than trying to keep a
    list of them in sync.
  * Unmount partitions mounted by usb-creator on unrecoverable failure.

 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:40:58 +0100

Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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