Re: [Usability] copy file dialog

[Alexey Rusakov <ktirf altlinux org>]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:48:34 +0000
stimorol chewing gun wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to this group. Maybe you already spoken about it, in this case sorry.
> 
> I just think, it may be cool to have these features.
> 
> When you copy a lot of files with the gmone interface you have one dialog by batch.
> 
> Maybe we can group them like in Beos. (see the screenshot)
> 
> Maybe we can put a « pause button », sometimes it can be usefull.
> 
> Maybe we can put one details button to see the list of the files to be copied and there states. Which on is already copied, which one was unreadable and some options to cancel or retry on files.
> 
> thanks. Sorry for my bad english.
I've seen a project named Mathusalem[1], developed mainly during Summer of
Code back in 2006, that strives to implement a more general functionality:
a common interface for all long operations. The idea is very promising
indeed. Too bad, the project seems to be stalled.

[1] http://tw.apinc.org/weblog/2006/08/22

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  Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov
  GNOME Project
  ALT Linux Team