Re: Progress dialogs patch

[Sebastien Estienne <sebastien estienne gmail com>]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:55:04 +0200, David Christian Berg
<david sipsolutions net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 19:33 +0100, Sebastien Estienne wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if we really need to have this kind of progress bar
> > dialog that stay in the middle of the screen during the
> > copying/moving/deleting task.
> >
> > I think we could have something new:
> > When we start a copying/moving/deleting task, a little icon would
> > appear in the tray bar, a small pop up (like msn pop ups for new
> > message) would say that the tasked started ok, and then disappear till
> > the task is finished, a another popup would come to say that it works
> > ok or failed.
> >
> > We could access and see/cancel the status of current task by clicking
> > on the icon in the tray bar.
> >
> > what do you think of this idea?
> 
> Hey guys:
> 
> As a user, I like it... sounds very reasonable.
> If it is integrated, the code should be made available for other
> projects (e.g. for downloading in galeon) as well, or maybe it should be
> implemented on a gnome-wide basis, since there have been discussions for
> introducing toasters for non-crucial error messages and the such.

exactly, i was thinking about something like the firefox download manager

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Sebastien Estienne