[Thunar-dev] Shared progress dialog in Thunar

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:42:18 +0200
Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I wonder what you guys think about this feature though. It's not
> > committed to master yet, because I'd like to get some feedback. Do
> > you like it, do you not like it?
> 
> I would personally implement this in list model, so it scrolls nicely.

Yeah. I did that first but it looked like crap (which I guess is
solvable). It also introduces new problems like how and when to resize
and where to scroll when raising the dialog (when a progress view needs
attention).

I guess resizing could be rather simple by putting a scrolled window
around the views as soon as there are more than three of them. After
that, no forther resizing. Once there are less than four views, we
shrink/grow the window with each view. Something like that. I'll test
it later.

> Another (big, but difficult) improvement would be a pause button
> and/or maybe a way (checkbox) to make 1 transfter at a time, this
> would speedup multiple copies to a usb device for example, but maybe
> that is a bit overly complicated.

Yeah, although I'd say that this is a different story and can be looked
at independently.

> Anyway, sound like a branch to me ;-).

I have the code almost ready. I'll do some testing with scrollbars
tonight and then commit it directly to master, I guess. For the pausing
we could open a new branch but that has lower priority IMHO. I just
needed one more feature to have more to write about in my thesis. ;)

  - Jannis
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