On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:44, JP Rosevear wrote:

> Well, for long operations while going off line it seems appropriate for
> the user to see progress info doesn't it?

One feedback technique that might be useful here is to start the
operation silently, and if it ends up taking more than a couple of
seconds, pop up a progress dialog at that point.  File managers
(including nautilus IIRC) often do this when copying/moving files, as
it's impossible to tell in advance how long it might take.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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