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? Interrupting a copy halfway through based on what's been copied so far is the only thing I can think of just now, and that seems like a pretty rare eventuality-- more often than not you'd just want to completely cancel the whole operation (deleting stuff that had already been copied), as in a multiple copy you're usually copying a bunch of related files that you want in their entirety. I can see the benefit of the 'detailed progress' area in apps like synaptic where the installer is potentially doing all sorts of stuff to your system that a more sophisticated user might want to keep an eye on, but it's hard to imagine something much simpler than copying files from A to B. Or do I have too much faith in nautilus? :) > 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
