Re: [Usability] copy file dialog

["Amaury Chamayou" <achamayou gmail com>]

On 9/21/07, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:

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?

It's slightly better to know what's been actually transferred when a large multi-file transfer happens. For example when an ftp transfer dies in the middle (because the disk is full or the network died, or could be from a usb disk that's been unplugged), one file will be left half transferred, and I won't know it until I try to open it and find it out I can't. If it had a progress bar (or a .part like in Firefox) I could tell it's not complete.

Another scenario : I tranfer stuff from my camera. Somebody shuts it down in the middle because they tried to take a pic while I was away, when I come back I restart the transfer and will skip all completed files, and the one where the interruption occured will be skipped as well even though it's incomplete.

I know that as far as unix is concerned, files are just bytes, and the os doesn't care about something like file integrity, but I think I wouldn't mind GNOME taking care of that for me.

UI wise, a simple .part at the end of any file that's not complete yet would the trick as well I believe though.

> 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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