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Bug 598581 - Show progress when copying files with gvfs
Show progress when copying files with gvfs
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus-sendto
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: nautilus-sendto-maint
nautilus-sendto-maint
: 409288 614000 666058 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 498506
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-15 16:15 UTC by Nick G
Modified: 2013-07-03 07:44 UTC
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Description Nick G 2009-10-15 16:15:24 UTC 
Originally filed downstream at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391663

When using the Send To function from a right click context menu, the dialog stays on screen and is static while the transfer is taking place. If this is a large file being moved to a USB or network drive this can cause problems as it can resemble a lock up or raise doubts about whether the transfer is taking place.

A time to completion or transfer rate indicator like the one used in the cut/copy function in nautilus would solve the problem nicely.
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Is there a way to instigate a nautilus copy from nautilus-sendto or is a different approach needed?
Comment 1 Nick G 2009-10-16 10:20:50 UTC 
From what I've seen - I don't think you can instigate a copy/move from outside of nautilus' process so perhaps this should be done with some zenity magic?
Comment 2 Serkan Kaba 2010-03-29 03:25:34 UTC 
Also the UI blocks with big file transfers, and I think zenity is not an option, it should integrate with nautilus file copy.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2011-01-17 15:22:39 UTC 
*** Bug 614000 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Constantine Nosovsky 2011-04-05 07:38:50 UTC 
Nautilus-sendto uses the send_files function of a certain plugin which forms URI and calls copy_fobject in its turn (at least in removable-devices and nautilus-burn plugins). copy_fobject is nautilus-sendto function and it works synchroniously in the same thread as UI does, that is why the UI blocks.
I think integrating with nautilus file operations can be done for removable-devices since copy_fobject uses GFile object just like nautilus-gio does. But there are no file transfer API in Nautilus Extension. So this is partly a nautilus bug too.
Should Nautilus-sendto have own file transfer window for removable-devices? Or maybe just a progress bar in its main dialog?
Is it worth to use GIO in Nautilus-sendto?
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2012-01-06 16:56:52 UTC 
*** Bug 666058 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 André Klapper 2012-08-07 06:38:59 UTC 
*** Bug 409288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2013-07-03 07:44:52 UTC 
nautilus-sendto for GNOME 3.8 only supports sending files through an email client. In the future, other sharing options will be implemented through portals (an equivalent system to Android intents).