Re: File copy progress Bar

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 28 February 2018 at 12:56, Steve Houston <johnwoo4545 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I really like this program and I have a suggestion, unless it's supposed to
> be incorporated.  When using directory comparison, you can right click a
> file and choose copy left/right.  There is no "File Operations" progress
> bar/dialog box that appears.  So with larger files such as multi GB video
> files, my window just goes to gray, and stays like that until finished.
> Would be nice to display the file copy progress.

I agree! We have an open issue for it
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues/19) but just no one has
got around to looking at it.

On a technical level, this would "just" look like moving our Python
stdlib copying to use gio, although that also entails some async
handling and a progress UI. It's not a massive task, but probably not
a tiny one either.

cheers,
Kai