[Fwd: feedback]

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:49, Staszyszyn, Marcin wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "edscott" <edscott at imp.mx>
> To: <xfce-dev at moongroup.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: feedback]
> 
> 
> > > 2. Great enhancement would be to have progress bar support, to see how
> > > much of the file has been transferred.
> > > I know this is not trivial, so it would only be a nice enhancement.
> >
> > It could be a progress bar like that of xftree, otherwise I believe
> > smbclient does not provide a mecanism.
> 
> What about reading remote file size before downloading and monitoring local
> file size during transmission? It should solve a problem of lack of SMB
> client support for progress indicator.

Interesting. Although there would have to be 3 threads doing the work,
one with the downloading, and the other monitoring the filesize changes
and updating the progress bar and the third processing the gtk event
loop. It sounds like the perfect excuse to learn the tricks of pthreads.

Edscott