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    I suppose the most common example of what I'm suggesting is installers with two progress bars - one for the current task progress and one for overall progress. Commented Sep 25, 2011 at 21:35
  • The problem with saying it's not okay to just wing it is that often more explicit progress bars are often over complicated and still give no actually useful ETA, despite immensely greater effort put into installing them. The most important part of a progress bar is an indication that the steps are indeed executing and not stuck. A general ETA is a great bonus, trying to accurately estimate a real ETA is too complex and will be greatly misleading in the large likelyhood that it is infact incorrect in any particular case. Commented Sep 26, 2011 at 3:01
  • @BenBrocka, I'm not going into any technical detail, but the UX will not even be close to decent without a useful ETA, and that's really what we're talking about here. Commented Sep 26, 2011 at 18:18