GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 756096
No indication of preparing for intense file operations in new progress indicator
Last modified: 2015-10-13 16:02:19 UTC
Copying of large files, or large amounts of files, can take nautilus a bit of time to prepare. However, in 3.18's new progress indicator button implementation, there is no indication that the operation is being worked on. This could lead to repeated attempts at the same operation, or to forgetting that an operation is in progress and doing something to disrupt it. Sometimes nautilus is simply slow at doing its tasks, for whatever reason, and copying a few photos might take it a while to start. With no indication of the operation having started/being delayed, I might believe that the file operation is complete, then proceed to perform a task that will prevent the operation from being successful (alteration or deletion of the source file, etc). Previous versions of nautilus produced a dialog window making it clear that the process was "in process". The new indicator does not provide this.
Indeed, target it as 3.18
Created attachment 313193 [details] [review] file-operations: fix toolbar button not showing soon We were not taking into account the time the operations takes to prepare the operation itself. That makes big operations take more time than needed for show the toolbar operations button feedback than expected (2 seconds). Fix that exposing a new timer that takes into account all the time since the start of the operation and use that for deciding when to show the file operations toolbar button or not.
Attachment 313193 [details] pushed as 55e1b80 - file-operations: fix toolbar button not showing soon