Re: [Usability] Real progress screen for file-roller (Gnome Archive Manager)

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 10:14 -0400, Saad Shakhshir
> wrote:
> > It would be much more meaningful to the user to be
> able to view the
> > progress of file extraction instead of the simple
> 'busy' dialog that
> > pops up when using the Gnome Archive Manager.  I'm
> not sure what the
> > application is called by default in gnome, but I
> use Ubuntu and there
> > it is called file-roller.  I'm attaching a link to
> a screenshot of the
> > current progress dialog, which is really not a
> progress dialog but
> > just an indicator that the file is being
> extracted.  Since file
> > extraction is usually a CPU-intensive and (for
> large files) time
> > consuming process, it would be much more useful if
> this dialog did
> > indeed display a progress bar. 
> 
> This is mainly due to the lack of useful feedback
> from the command-line
> utilities file-roller uses to handle the
> decompression. I'm sure that it
> would have a proper progress dialogue, if it weren't
> for the
> short-comings of the command-line utilities.

The real problem is that file-roller starts activity
*before* a drag&drop to Nautilus has actually ended,
leaving you holding the drag for ages because you
don't actually know where you might be dropping it...
(AFAIK there's a bug filed for this.)


		
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