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 attached a mockup of what I mean. It has the pause button, and the progress bars and the queue. 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++ Peace - Kevin Carlson On 9/20/07, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 17:50 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 20:48 +0000, stimorol chewing gun wrote: > > > > > I'm new to this group. Maybe you already spoken about it, in this case > sorry. > > > > > > I just think, it may be cool to have these features. > > > > > > When you copy a lot of files with the gmone interface you have one > dialog by batch. > > > > > > Maybe we can group them like in Beos. (see the screenshot) > > > > I guess the first question (for any new feature, not just this one) > > would be "why"? The multiple progress bars take up more screen space, > > so the use case would have to be quite common and compelling. > > > > When you copy multiple files at once (to the same location), aren't they > > usually copied one after the other anyway to avoid disk thrashing? So > > wouldn't you usually still see just one progress bar at a time anyway? > > Furthermore, while per-file progress bars could be useful when > copying a small number of large files, I think the majority of > lengthy copy operations involve moving a large number of small > files. Think of copying your music directory to a USB stick. > > For that sort of operation, I really doubt you want to see a > bunch of progress bars appear and disappear. All you really > care about is the total amount of time the entire copy will > take. > > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 20:48 +0000, stimorol chewing gun wrote: > > Maybe we can put a « pause button », sometimes it can be usefull. > > Having a pause button, though, could be very useful. I can > imagine lots of scenarios where you're copying a huge folder, > it's a quarter of the way through, and it's slowing down your > system. You want to check your email and the show times at > the local cinema. You don't want to cancel the whole copy. > You just want to pause it long enough to do what you want to > do. Then you'll start it back up when you go to the movies. > > And again, you'd just want to pause the entire copy operation, > not individual file copies. Otherwise, you'll be doing some > crazy clicking. Pause. Crap! Pause. Crap! Pause. Crap! > Pause. Crap! Pause. Crap! Pause. Crap! Pause. Crap! > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability >
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