[Thunar-dev] Shared progress dialog in Thunar

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:44:08 +0400
Grigory Tuboltsev <gtubolcev at newmail.ru> wrote:

> Xfce is often used on notebooks so saving some screen space could be
> a good idea:  (http://i32.tinypic.com/30d9xs9.png)

Saving space is good, yes.

> I am sure i could make it even more compact and improve general 
> usability, should i post other mocups ?
> 
> Unfortunately I speak no C or C++ so I can only share some usability 
> thoughts.

The mockup you posted above is not really usable. A bit more spacing
and text helps users in finding a certain operation again later. I've
(more or less) decided to implement this mockup now:

http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-09142009-030342pm.php

It requires less vertical space and we can probably display 5 jobs
without scrollbars on a netbook screen. I'd say that's pretty good.

> Rgrds,
> Grigory Tuboltsev
> 
> 
> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've been hacking on a shared progress dialog today which displays
> > all the copy/move progress information in a single dialog instead
> > of many. It also shows a status bar icon for as long as there are
> > file operations running.
> >
> > Here's what it looks like:
> > http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/screenshots/xfce/thunar-progress-dialog-20090912-1.png
> >
> > Now the individual job titles could be a little more descriptive. I
> > could imagine changing that to something like
> >
> >    Copying files from "Source folder" to "Target folder"
> >    Moving files from "Source folder" to "Target folder"
> >    Deleting files from "Source folder"
> >
> > And so on. Ellipsizing these titles could ensure that the dialog
> > doesn't grow beyond the acceptable.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >   - Jannis
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