Feature Request: Show download progress bar when downloading add-ons

[cary-rowen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The user wants to know when the download task is completed.
This will take a long time if users have downloaded multiple add-ons at the same time, or downloaded a large add-on, however they want to manually restart NVDA immediately after the download task is complete to complete the add-on installation.
Currently, to do this, the user has to manually check the download status.

1. Shift the system focus back and forth between the downloaded item and an adjacent item, after which NVDA will eventually announce the download status.
2. Utilize table navigation to reach the second column.
3. Press the 'Esc' key; NVDA will then alert you if the download has not been completed.

All the aforementioned methods are excessively complex, particularly when multiple add-ons are being downloaded simultaneously.

Describe the solution you'd like

When there is a download task, display a progress bar to indicate the real-time status of the task.
I propose using a progress bar to representing all downloads in-progress.
I.e. if a second download is started after the first, the bar would grow, and 90% would turn into 20% or similar?

Thanks to @XLTechie for adding this information

Describe alternatives you've considered

keep current behavior.

Additional context

None

[seanbudd]

Instead would you consider NVDA updating the status text to "X%, downloading" while a download occurs. I think this is simpler than a progress bar.

[cary-rowen]

Hi @seanbudd

I don't think this solves the problem I mentioned, which is that the user has to manually move to the status column to see the current status of each in-progress task.
In contrast, if you use a progress bar, the user has complete autonomy. This is due to NVDA's good support for progress bar reporting.

Thanks

[XLTechie]

Is this proposing a single progress bar representing all downloads in-progress? I.e. if a second download is started after the first, the bar would grow, and 90% would turn into 20% or similar?

[cary-rowen]

@XLTechie
Yes, that's it.
There is no need to have a separate progress bar for each task.

[CyrilleB79]

What would also be useful to manage this progress bar more finely is to know the size of the add-ons in the store. E.g. if the first add-on weights 100kB and another big one weights 90MB, the progress bar should not stuck at 50% while downloading the second big add-on.

Moreover, adding the size of each add-ons in "Other details" field can be interesting.

[cary-rowen]

cc @seanbudd @gerald-hartig

To make the goals of this feature request more clear, I refined the original description with comments from other contributors. Can NV Access take a look?

Thanks

[seanbudd]

This issue is already triaged (i.e accepted) can you please clarify what further action you expect from NV Access?

[cary-rowen]

Sorry @seanbudd

I missed this has been Triaged.