Re: [Usability] copy file dialog

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:17 -0600, Kevin Carlson wrote:
> Maybe it would be better to have one big master copy progress bar and
> a smaller, less pronounced progress bar for the current file. Then,
> you could expand a copy files queue to show which files have been
> copied and are in progress. 

I'll re-iterate my original 'why?'-- what is the user potentially going
to do with this extra information that they couldn't do without it?

Interrupting a copy halfway through based on what's been copied so far
is the only thing I can think of just now, and that seems like a pretty
rare eventuality-- more often than not you'd just want to completely
cancel the whole operation (deleting stuff that had already been
copied), as in a multiple copy you're usually copying a bunch of related
files that you want in their entirety.

I can see the benefit of the 'detailed progress' area in apps like
synaptic where the installer is potentially doing all sorts of stuff to
your system that a more sophisticated user might want to keep an eye on,
but it's hard to imagine something much simpler than copying files from
A to B.  Or do I have too much faith in nautilus? :)

> It took all of like 5 minutes to do it in Inkscape, and I'm a total
> Inkscape noob. It might take longer in C++
> 
:)

Cheeri,
Calum.


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