[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 13465] New: Queueing files to copy (UltraCopier like features)

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13465

            Bug ID: 13465
           Summary: Queueing files to copy (UltraCopier like features)
    Classification: Xfce
           Product: Thunar
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: core
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: siltaar at laposte.net
        QA Contact: nick at xfce.org
                CC: benny at xfce.org, hjudt at xfce.org
  Target Milestone: 1.8.0

There is currently no queueing file copier in Gtk world (AFAIK), UltraCopier
working only for QT applications or catchcopy v0002 protocol compliant ones.

The idea is to make Thunar a file-copy manager able to queue copies instead of
doing them in parallel.

It would help to pick up (for instance) 15 movies from an external disk, one by
one (speaking which to pick up between to starting copies) to copy on local
disk, without having 15 parallel copies and no way to exactly know where it
stopped when it crashed (may be because the USB plug was pulled). I lived this
scene many times, it involves at least 2 peoples, and leave a bad image of
GNU/Linux…
The other scenario for this activity is : carefully grow a selection which will
fail (because of a mouse handling mistake) at the 15th file, loosing the
selection just when you wanted to start the copy.

Dragging a new file to copy would add it to the file-copy queue, and everything
goes well.

Here are the main features of UltraCopier :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracopier
-    Pause and resume the copy
-    Copy list can be edited during the copy 
-    Apply speed limitation
-    Resume the copy where it would have stopped if error occurred
-    Collision management (overwrite, skip, cancel or rename) (this we already
have \o/)

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