Re: [Usability] Real progress screen for file-roller (Gnome Archive Manager)

["Saad Shakhshir" <shakhshir gmail com>]

This is not the case.  At least not for .rar files.  I have just tested extraction of a large rar archive and the Gnome Archive Manager provides just the 'busy' dialog that I described earlier without a true progress bar.  From the command line doing a simple 'rar x 
test.rar' I was shown a percentage indicator while the contents of the archive were being extracted.  Screenshot below.

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/3761/screenshotyakuakeqk8.png

-SS-

On 9/10/06, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 10:14 -0400, Saad Shakhshir wrote:
> It would be much more meaningful to the user to be able to view the
> progress of file extraction instead of the simple 'busy' dialog that
> pops up when using the Gnome Archive Manager.  I'm not sure what the
> application is called by default in gnome, but I use Ubuntu and there
> it is called file-roller.  I'm attaching a link to a screenshot of the
> current progress dialog, which is really not a progress dialog but
> just an indicator that the file is being extracted.  Since file
> extraction is usually a CPU-intensive and (for large files) time
> consuming process, it would be much more useful if this dialog did
> indeed display a progress bar.

This is mainly due to the lack of useful feedback from the command-line
utilities file-roller uses to handle the decompression. I'm sure that it
would have a proper progress dialogue, if it weren't for the
short-comings of the command-line utilities.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>