On 9/20/07, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I've always liked the way "Update manager" in Ubuntu did this. Here's a screenshot: http://people.ubuntu.com/~mnuzum/tmp/update-manager-progress.png By default you just get a single progress bar, but below it is a details area that you can expand and see the progress. I've always found it annoying when copying a bunch of audio files to my player leaves me in the dark about what's going on. Likewise rsync by default shows you little about what's going on. -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
