Re: copy management

[Daniel Hernandez Bahr <dbahr uci cu>]

El jue, 17-11-2011 a las 13:39 -0500, Daniel Hernandez Bahr escribió:
> El jue, 17-11-2011 a las 12:23 -0500, Cosimo Cecchi escribió:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 08:28 -0500, Daniel Hernandez Bahr wrote:
> > > Hello, everyone!
> > > 
> > > Is there anything planned on improving the copy/move (henceforth just
> > > copy) utility used by nautilus??
> > > I'm talking mostly about the ability of pausing/resuming a copy process,
> > > for instance, but also a couple other features such as managing a copy
> > > queue, or maybe even regulating copy speed..
> > 
> > While I don't think regulating the copy speed is a valuable use case (we
> > just always transfer as fast as possible), pause/resume and queuing of
> > operations under some circumstances are both things that we've had open
> > enhancement requests outstanding for a long time.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333730
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124783
> > 
> > Cosimo
> > 
> Yes, I was aware of the many bugs reported about it, but I didn't find
> in the bugs discussions any expression of the developers intentions
> about them, that's why I wrote to the list: to see if some debate could
> be raised around it.
> 
> For instance: I think that maybe the GCancellable interface could be
> extended to GControllable (which should implement GCancellable,
> GPausable and so on), and then the GFile->copy_async method should check
> not only if it was cancelled but also the other possible conditions
> implemented by the GControllable.

Off course I realize that this should be done on Gio (I've wrote to Gtk
list as well), but they said Gio was a bit lower level than that.

Best regards
-- 

                                                          Ing. D.H. Bahr
                                Líder de Desarrollo para Nova Escritorio
                                        CESOL (Centro de Software Libre)
                              UCI (Universidad de Ciencias Informáticas)
                                               Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba



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