GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 775710
Progress bar difficult to see (high DPI screen?)
Last modified: 2018-08-03 20:57:22 UTC
Hello all, On my laptop with a 13.3" 3200x1600 high DPI screen, the Epiphany progress indicator is difficult to see. This is compounded by the fact that the highlighted tab is indicated with a blue bar that is nearly identical and adjacent. I think the progress bar needs to be moved or resized. I am not sure if this is because of the DPI on my screen. Possible options include: 1. Increasing the thickness 2. Progressively shading the the URL box 3. Progressively shading the tab 4. Ditching the progress bar all together and switching to a simple per tab spinner ala Chromium. Perhaps with a % indicator Personally, I like #4 the most :) I am on 3.23.3 on Arch Linux.
I'm thinking we should go with #4, unless anyone wants to improve the style of the progress bar to mitigate this issue. This is far from the first time I've seen complaints about it, so I think the progress bar in its current form has got to go. My only hesitation with #4 is there's not currently any way to see if the page is still loading when there's only one tab open. P.S. Another disadvantage of the progress bar is it indicates that slow nonessential subresources are still loading after the rest of the page is present, which makes users think we are slower than other browsers.
Created attachment 341486 [details] [review] embed: Remove the progress bar It does nothing except make us look slower than other browsers, and has serious style issues.
Excellent! Thank you. The stop/refresh button already indicates when the page is loading / done loading. This might be sufficient in the 1 tab case. If not, perhaps the stop symbol could be changed to a 'spinner'.
(In reply to Harshad from comment #3) > Excellent! Thank you. > > The stop/refresh button already indicates when the page is loading / done > loading. Oh yeah, good point. So that was my only hesitation to removing the progress bar. I'll still leave this open for a day or two to give others a chance to object before landing.
I'm not a great fan of that progressbar as well, I don't like having different baheviours if there are tabs or not though.
Attachment 341486 [details] pushed as 14249f5 - embed: Remove the progress bar
(In reply to Harshad from comment #3) > The stop/refresh button already indicates when the page is loading / done > loading. This might be sufficient in the 1 tab case. If not, perhaps the > stop symbol could be changed to a 'spinner'. Yeah we're going to need a spinner somewhere, reverting this. :(
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