On 9/21/07, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group > http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability >
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