GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 644799
Show how many MB your upload is while adding/upload photos
Last modified: 2011-04-22 15:16:32 UTC
As reported by Quinn Dombrowski in the frogr-list [1]: "Show how many MB your upload is, both while you're adding photos and while you're doing the upload. Knowing I have 20 photos is okay, but the file sizes differ, and knowing the MB gives me a much better estimate of how long this is going to take on my really slow home internet." [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/frogr-list/2011-March/msg00000.html
I half-implemented this in master branch now [1] by showing in the status bar the total size of data to be uploaded, and I wonder whether it actually makes sense or not to go ahead with the second part of showing that kind of information as well during the upload process, thus I'm asking for advice here, to see what you people think about it. My point is that knowing in advance the total amount of data to be uploaded could be enough for someone to have an idea (in advance) of how long the upload process will take. At least for, that would be ok since, after all, once I hit the upload button I usually forget about frogr until it finishes, so having the upload dialog continuously showing something like "Uploading X / Y MB" wouldn't be very useful for my use cases. But for sure other will have other use cases where it perhaps could make a lot of sense, I don't know. So... what do you think? I'm leaving an screenshot of how frogr looks now I added this extra piece of information in the status bar: http://people.igalia.com/msanchez/images/20110422-screenshot-frogr.png [1]http://git.gnome.org/browse/frogr/commit/?id=a10f3efea2e082bc24030befef77922bc8c5feb1
Marking as resolved after agreeing with the original reporter that going ahead with the first part only would be ok. See more details in the discussion in frogr-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/frogr-list/2011-April/msg00004.html The fix will be available in the next major software release.