** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/534477
Title:
Closing "File Operations" into panel is redundant with minimizing
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
Confirmed
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
nautilus 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Lucid
When moving or copying files that take a long time, a "File
Operations" window opens. This window is both minimizable and
closable. Closing it does not stop or cancel the operation; instead,
it effectively minimizes the window into a status menu aka indicator
(or, upstream, into a notification area item). While the window is
open, the menu appears with a "Show copy dialogue" item, regardless of
whether the progress window is currently focused or not.
It is not sensible design to have two different destinations into
which a window can be minimized. The usual argument here is that
minimizing it into the standard window list takes up too much space;
but if so, the answer shouldn't be to memorize a different way of
minimizing it, it should be to find a way to make standard
minimization take up less space. The extra width is not so onerous
that we should delay fixing the inconsistency until after that
happens.
As I wrote in
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CustomStatusMenuDesignGuidelines>, "You do
not need a custom status menu if: ... You just want the program to
take up a small space in the panel when minimized." It would be
misleading to ship Ubuntu 10.04 with a new design that we think other
developers shouldn't imitate.
I suggest that:
* the "File Operations" window be made minimizable but not closable
* Nautilus's libappindicator status menu be removed completely.
Making this change would invalidate bug 507486.
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