On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 13:55, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:11 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> > How much effort would it be to add such an copy-to-USB option to the >> > Journal >> > hover palette? Is this something I could do with the help of my >> > knowledgable >> > flatmate Mr. Innocenti? >> >> Yep, shouldn't be hard nor a lot of code. > > > As we're there, we might want to add a progress display for long copy > operations. Currently, if you drop a large file on the journal icon, the > UI freezes for a long time with no indication of progress, tempting the > user to perform a hard reboot (and thus corrupting the datastore :-). > > If nobody has time to implement a nice progress bar, at least we could > put on the busy cursor (which is animated in our cursor theme, iirc). > > The copy could probably be made fully asynchronous, but with no progress > indication, there's a potential for users to extract USB sticks before > the operation is finished.
All that makes sense, we may want to consider providing the same UX as with downloads. Regards, Tomeu > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel