That's not something we are going to change in Ubuntu, it should be
reported upstream instead
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799601
Title:
Nautilus should clearly indicate that a long-running large-data file
copy is progressing
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Binary package hint: nautilus
If copying a large amount of data on a relatively slow network
connection, it's impossible to see whether the copy is actually
working or has frozen. For example, showing "17.2GB of 30GB copied
(220k/sec), estimated time remaining 18 hours". If that copy process
freezes, or the network drops out, it's almost impossible to tell that
it's done so; the 17.2GB will eventually change to 17.3GB, but you
have to watch the thing for 5-10 minutes to see that change. The
progress bar will not move for the same amount of time, and that's
even harder to detect a change in anyway. The average transfer speed
also doesn't help; if you've had a long sustained transfer at 220k/sec
(12 hours, say, so far) and the current speed is actually 6k/sec, the
average won't change fast enough to be detected.
Note: this is not a call for some sort of "fake progress indicator",
like a spinner, unless that spinner actually stops spinning if
progress stops. I had to resort to dropping to the terminal and "ls
-lR"ing the copying files to see if the size of one of them was
incrementing (which is very hard, because you don't know which one is
currently being copied and it may be in a heavily nested subfolder).
One obvious but user-hostile fix would be to show an actual byte count
for amount copied (18253611008 bytes of 30GB copied) because you can
see that changing. Another might be to change the "average speed
counter" to much much more heavily weight recent changes to the speed,
but it wouldn't be visible that that was actually the case and so
would only help people who knew that nautilus did this. A third way
might be to have a "details" expander which shows the name and byte
count of the current file being copied (at which point this becomes
fix 1, show the byte count, but hidden behind an expander).
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