GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595137
Request for visual feedback when copying large files
Last modified: 2017-12-13 18:51:54 UTC
I largely use meld for syncing directories to/from a flash memory drive. When coping large files from one location to another it is impossible to tell if progress is being made. Suggestion: 'x% done' type information displayed in status bar plus change cursor icon to active/busy style. Many thanks.
I'm not telling you your bug report is useless, but wouldn't rsync be more efficient to do what you want ? (and it has some feedback too)
I haven't used rsync largely because I fear the command line :) Also, I don't want to mirror the entire directory trees, just some sections. The directories to include/exclude vary depending on what I'm currently working on. I'm sure I could set up a config file to determine what gets compared but it seems more complex and less flexible to me. I like the ability to look down the tree in a GUI and collapse whole sections that I know aren't currently relevant, or alternatively think 'yeah I'll need that lot' and copy them across.
Being older now I think I'll revise my previous comment on the subject, I even also used meld to do exactly the same thing and it really was a convenient way to get the job done... This is just a "Me too" or "+1".
We should definitely do this. The problem is that we currently use Python's built-in file access, which is totally synchronous. While we *could* spin up a thread for this, I think the sane solution is to migrate to using GIO for file operations. However, due to introspection requirements and whatnot, this will have to be part of a GTK 3 port.
I second that. File copying needs to be async. Is the GTK3 port in progress already?
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