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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: It is illogical...
From:       "Daniel A. Molina" <dmolina () amnet ! co ! cr>
Date:       2004-12-10 0:14:36
Message-ID: 41B8EA6C.8050603 () amnet ! co ! cr
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Some time ago I suggested something like that "group copy" , but I was 
not inspired by BeOS but by Firefox download dialog.

The main idea was a little more far fetched, by developing an small 
actions framework that would allow to queue them.  So I expected that I 
would start copying 70 files, and if at any point the application 
requires input from the user it will just move the "offending" item to a 
listbox or something in the same dialog with the available actions (Do 
you want to overwrite File?  or Could not read from Device. Would you 
like to retry? or Cancel) an keep copying (and queuing if necessary).  
This came to me one night I start copying a large amount of files over 
the net, and 2 hrs later I came back to find that the process was 
waiting for me asking to overwrite file 20th of like 1000th!

I think it was Aaron who suggested me to try to hack into KIO to add 
some kind of layer, but I still had not the chance to work on it.  At 
least this show that it is a "natural" o evident idea and eventualy it 
will be implemented :) or discarded :(

Regards,

Daniel



era1n wrote:

> Martin Koller wrote:
>
>> On Friday 03 December 2004 14:32, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
>>
>>> It is IMHO illogical to put the free disk space in the properties 
>>> dialog
>>> for a file or directory.
>>
>>
>>
>> For a directoty it does make sense, as a directory can be located on 
>> a device different from its parent or sister directory (think on 
>> mounts).
>> For a file it was useless and is already removed in current CVS.
>>
>>
>>> A better way would be to provide a visual representation of your disks,
>>> and show free space in the properties dialog of those disks.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you have a look at current CVS you'll see that I added a bar 
>> showing the fill grade in the "Device" tab.
>> This tab also shows the free space and the percentage of used space.
>> See attached screenshot.
>
> And adding this directly beside the icon? like the attached screenshot
> It's a BeOS screenshot, that also shows a intersting feature that I've
> forgot, the possibility to group copy dialogs
>
> Sorry I've attached a very big image, I'll post the link instead
>
> http://www.inf.bme.hu/~101/BeOS/archive/Tracker/screenshots/multicopy.jpg
>
> Cheers
>
> Luca
>
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