Re: [Nautilus-list] Progress Bar on Move

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 13:39, Martin Wehner wrote:
> I would be interested in opinions about showing the progress bar for
> very fast operations. 

If the operation is very fast, you'll probably get a lot of flashing,
flickery windows that probably never finish drawing before they're
destroyed.  That's very distracting and confusing.

> One might argue that the progress dialog should be
> shown for every operation - to provide feedback and give the user the
> opportunity to cancel the (possibly destructive) operation. 

Any destructive operation should probably warn the user and give him or
her the ability to cancel before the operation starts.  And again, very
fast operations won't give the user an opportunity to cancel.

> Or would it
> be ok to have a progress that comes up only if the operation takes
> longer than a certain amount of time? This seemed to be the original
> intend of the authors (on move at least). Should this be handled
> differently for the various operation classes (move/copy/delete/trash)?
> I'm running a version with a delayed (0.5sec) progress dialog now (for
> all operations) - And I like it. It feels like sane behaviour for me.
> But I'm kinda preoccupied because I invested the time to make it happen.

This sounds like the best approach to me, and is definitely better than
what we have now.  (Especially if you don't have FAM on)

Joe