Re: [Nautilus-list] Progress Bar on Move

[Tomar <tomar apricot com>]

Nautilus ML,

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 07:51, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 13:37, Martin Wehner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Nautilus doesn't show a progress bar if files are moved between
> > partitions (Bug 61517). This is due to the assumption in
> > nautilus_file_operations_copy_move() that move operations involving only
> > local uris (as reported by gnome-vfs) are very fast (just an inode
> > relink):
> > 
> > <snip>
> > /* Do an arbitrary guess that an operation will take very little
> > /* time and the progress shouldn't be shown.
> >  */
> > transfer_info->show_progress_dialog = 
> > 	!all_local || g_list_length ((GList *)item_uris)> 20;
> > </snip>
> > 
> > This assumption breaks if source and target are on different partitions
> > (= copy & delete).
> 
> > Or is it even possible to determine how long an operation has already
> > taken and create the progress dialog after say 0.5 sec?
> 
> (I am a Nautilus user, not developer.) This or something like that be
> would be great. If I copy some divx;-) file of about 650 megs I really
> would like to see a progress bar. Just showing it if there are more than
> 20 items to move is not always appropriate. Maybe the file size can be
> taken into account if the proposition?
> 
> Markus Bertheau

On the other hand if you have 650 1MB files you are moving around
you want a slightly different progress bar.

How about showing progress as function of MB size operated on
(moved, deleted, copied, etc) instead of number?

Just a random thought as I start hacking for the day, :-)
Tom Larsen