Hello,
Just to awnser you about the "why multiple progress bars”? I just think it can 
be cool to hide, show and see all the information about file copy windows at 
the same time. But yes it’s take more space and maybe it’s not so usefull.
Cheers


> De: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A: stimorol chewing gun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Objet: Re: [Usability] copy file dialog
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:50:34 +0100

> 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? 
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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