Bitcoin-Qt, bitcoind version 0.5.3 released

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Quote from: paraipan on March 16, 2012, 06:02:02 PM

Quote from: slothbag on March 16, 2012, 05:37:51 PM

I agree, the 99% bar is silly. Everytime I load the app it shows 99% for a minute and then disappears.. Makes me think something's broken.

Bring back the useful progress bar!

+1 agree with this

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Show the percentage based on blocks missing at the client startup. This makes sense both for initial download and later for catching up.

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updated to 0.5.3.1-beta
Thanks for fixing that potential security vulnerability!

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Quote from: slothbag on March 16, 2012, 05:37:51 PM

I agree, the 99% bar is silly. Everytime I load the app it shows 99% for a minute and then disappears.. Makes me think something's broken.

Bring back the useful progress bar!

+1

I hadn't started the client up in a week and when I did it just showed 99% which didn't give me any useful information at all
about how long it was going to take to finish downloading the blockchain. New progress bar is fail!

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on March 16, 2012, 07:01:53 PM

Quote from: triplehelix on March 16, 2012, 06:20:52 PM

i'm new to bitcoin so still learning. how are things like the progress bar usually addressed? is it community driven or does gavin get to decide whatever he wants?

In practice, Gavin does what he wants, usually with all other developers in agreement or at least neutral. The recent P2SH argument was the rare exception, and neither side really had more developer support than the other.

thats not how i read it.

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Quote from: triplehelix on March 16, 2012, 06:20:52 PM

i'm new to bitcoin so still learning. how are things like the progress bar usually addressed? is it community driven or does gavin get to decide whatever he wants?

In practice, Gavin does what he wants, usually with all other developers in agreement or at least neutral. The recent P2SH argument was the rare exception, and neither side really had more developer support than the other.

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Quote from: slothbag on March 16, 2012, 06:22:27 PM

rjk is onto something.. Include both progress bars, with a option to switch. Default can be absolute for noobs downloading block chain from scratch.

Or integrate the two... The global as it is, with a thinner one showing progress since startup laid over the bottom of the existing one in a color that is easy for our color-impaired friends to differentiate.

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rjk is onto something.. Include both progress bars, with a option to switch. Default can be absolute for noobs downloading block chain from scratch.

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i'm new to bitcoin so still learning. how are things like the progress bar usually addressed? is it community driven or does gavin get to decide whatever he wants?

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Quote from: slothbag on March 16, 2012, 05:37:51 PM

I agree, the 99% bar is silly. Everytime I load the app it shows 99% for a minute and then disappears.. Makes me think something's broken.

Bring back the useful progress bar!

+1 agree with this

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Quote from: slothbag on March 16, 2012, 05:37:51 PM

I agree, the 99% bar is silly. Everytime I load the app it shows 99% for a minute and then disappears.. Makes me think something's broken.

Bring back the useful progress bar!

Next thing we hear will be a call for "democracy" and compromise by including both progress bars. Submit a pull request.

slothbag

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I agree, the 99% bar is silly. Everytime I load the app it shows 99% for a minute and then disappears.. Makes me think something's broken.

Bring back the useful progress bar!

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on March 16, 2012, 03:57:19 PM

both Wladimir and Gavin disagree with reverting the progress bar fix, sorry.

Why? What sense does it make? A 99% bar is simply useless.

If most of the users do not like it (as is my impression), then I see no reason why it should not be reverted. Maybe vote?

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There's a bug in the new testnet mining code, so I'm running 0.5.4 now with that and a few other fixes. (Sorry guys, the progress bar is not reverted in 0.5.4.)

Edit: Nevermind, Gavin wants to hold off on 0.5.4 until BIP16 is ready, so it'll probably be another week or so. Also, both Wladimir and Gavin disagree with reverting the progress bar fix, sorry.

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Quote from: N12 on March 16, 2012, 12:29:41 PM

I would like the old progress bar back. This one is just useless.

Yeah definitely a regression.

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Make the Progressbar show more details: not only 99% but 99.67% That number would climb visible

N12

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I would like the old progress bar back. This one is just useless.

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The progress bar behavior was changed again? I personally found the older behavior more useful, since it actually showed progress elsewhere besides the initial download.

Maybe the progress bar could be hidden entirely/set to busy instead of showing a percentage of 99% if it only needs to download less than 1% of blocks?

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Great work guys!

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Quote from: Meni Rosenfeld on March 16, 2012, 12:59:04 AM

Quote from: Hal on March 16, 2012, 12:03:39 AM

File this one under "you can't win."

I fired up the new client after several days, the progress bar immediately went to 99%, and stayed there for the next ten minutes. I guess some people found the old behavior confusing, but of what use is this behavior?

I should call you "Lazarus".

Welcome back.

Isn't lazarus the pizza guy?

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Quote from: Hal on March 16, 2012, 12:03:39 AM

File this one under "you can't win."

I fired up the new client after several days, the progress bar immediately went to 99%, and stayed there for the next ten minutes. I guess some people found the old behavior confusing, but of what use is this behavior?

I should call you "Lazarus".

Welcome back.

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