[bitbake-devel] [master][zeus][PATCH] uihelper: Track scene tasks again

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: den 10 februari 2020 15:18
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com>; bitbake-
> devel at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] [master][zeus][PATCH] uihelper: Track scene
> tasks again
> 
> On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 09:50 +0100, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > Track both scene tasks and run tasks to provide a complete progress
> > information for all tasks. This avoids the progress bar from stating
> > "Currently XX running tasks (0 of 0)" while progressing through
> > thousands of setscene tasks, obviously confusing the user.
> 
> There was a reason this was removed, this can't work unfortunately.
> 
> The code was changed such that setscene tasks can potentially be rerun
> so we have no idea what "complete" looks like or how many will actually
> run. I'm not happy about that but there wasn't an alternative.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

If a setscene task is rerun, won't that just mean that the counters 
don't change due to this? So in this case there won't be any progress 
to the total progress bar even if a task is running? That should still 
be better than the current situation when they are never counted.

//Peter