Re: File transfert rate

[Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer lunden gmail com>]

Just wanted to say that I wanted and needed this today. Not for any
earth-shattering purposes, but I needed to compare my transfer rates
to some other computers easily, and since I transfered some ISOs
anyways...

It's a common measure in many applications, don't see the harm of
including it. A *lot* of people actually know what these figures mean,
including people like my father - he knows what the numbers should be
approximately for these kinds of transfers, and can look for trouble
if it doesn't add up.

A time estimate is really nice, but gives no indication on how it's
actually going unless you break out a calculator and do some math.

I'll have to say I want transfer rate at least available. You could
write it out after the filename as in "Copying file.iso at x B/s" or,
if you want to keep things clean, how about putting it in a tooltip so
you can hover over the progress bar to get a number?


On 10/2/05, David Olsson <davidolsson yahoo com> wrote:
>  Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > I just would like to make you a proposal about the file transfer
> > > progress dialog : display the rate speed information.
> >
> > How does that speed up the transfer itself? Isn't the onliest
> > important/interesting information how long the process will most likely
> > take?
>
> Displaying an estimate of how long the process will take doesn't offer
> clear information on how it's going.  It's true many people won't make
> much out of the KB/sec number, and for them it makes the interface
> noisier.  But anyone who transfers large files even now and then will
> appreciate seeing the transfer rate to see how it's going.
>
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