Re: [Usability] File operations dialog redesign

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Kirk Bridger wrote:
>  The only use case I can think of (because I've experienced it) is 
> using pause to prioritize specific copying.  If we have multiple 
> things going over the wire, and suddenly I want one to be the only 
> thing going, to make it get there as fast as possible, I'd pause the 
> lower priority ones.

Interesting. For that purpose, how about a "Pause All Others" button 
instead of a "Pause" button? That way if you wanted one task to be the 
only one going, instead of having to click a button for each of the 
*other* tasks, you'd click only one button in the section for *that* 
task.

(If Nautilus included such a button, probably it would be in the 
expandable section, since it would be needed infrequently.)

> Now maybe that introduces the need for explicit prioritizing, but that 
> seems quite a complicated solution and concept.
> ...

One possibility (which might be silly) is to allow drag-and-drop 
rearrangement of tasks in the progress window. That might avoid having 
to add extra visible elements for reordering (though there would be the 
usual problem with drag-and-drop, of how to make the function 
keyboard-accessible).

It would be easy to let this drift into something complicated that 
looked like a download manager, which would be ugly and cramped in the 
usual case of presenting just one move or copy at a time.

Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/