GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 627772
TaskView Integration/Reworked Progress Dialogue
Last modified: 2012-08-14 23:01:33 UTC
During GSoC I've created the TaskView system and a set of patches to integrate nautilus into it. More about TaskView: http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/SalomonSickert_Tasks http://ssickert.wordpress.com/ Nautilus patch: http://github.com/ssickert/nautilus-taskview/commit/fa918e0909f31576319eb954a0f9a37bafabe2a0
Hi Saloman! Thanks for starting this bug. It would be useful if you could briefly describe the current issues with Nautilus that your work fixes, as well as how it fixes them.
* Atm the UI for displaying the progress of file operations has some shortcomings, which this design-spec: http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus/ProgressWindow tries to remove. The code fully implements this (with some minor corrections) * Improve file representation through integration from third-party applications, which can be used to create such things: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5031519/downloads.png.
Thanks Saloman - that summarises things nicely.
Is there an ETA?
There are a number of aspects of Salomon's work that are desirable from a usability point of view. * Ensures that progress windows are consistent. This will give users less to mentally process and increase there familiarity with the desktop as a whole. * Allows us to deal with files that are being written to in a graceful manner: allows us to indicate when a file is being written to; if a user tries to open a file that is being written to, we can switch to the progress window rather than showing an error dialog. These two steps will reduce possible confusion.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 124783 ***