Comment 18 for bug 595845

Note that there's both a load and a time issue.

A progress bar shall NEVER neither cause a high load nor a time prolongation of the progress itself. It shall be there only to indicate. My feeling is that this progress bar used by e.g. Ambiance is a pure design issue, i.e has to be redesigned.

Today I made another install of Ubuntu using that progress bar and wondered whether the progress bar itself caused a prolongation of the installaltion process. Maybe or maybe not but the suspicion is there for obvious reasons.

The example script also indicates all this with a time factor of around 4 and an unreasonable high load.