From kfm-devel  Thu Mar 25 19:12:54 1999
From: Torben Weis <weis () troll ! no>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:12:54 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: New progress dialogs - started
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=92386547425820

Hi,

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Matt Koss wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have started the work on new progress dialogs for kiolib, as I promised.
> I have decided to create a list progress dialog instead of using kget for
> showing progress.
> 
> The dialog will be the part of kiolib and that's why easily used by all
> applications.
> Kget will then be configured to handle e.g. remote transfers ( ftp and http ).
> These transfers would then display only in kget and not in the list progress
> dialog.
> 
> I've created three new classes which replace current KIOCopyProgressDialog :
> 
> 1. KIOSimpleProgressDialog - this is an old KIOCopyProgessDialog and that's
>     why it works fine already.
> 
> 2. KIOListProgressDialog - this will be a new progress dialog which shows
>    progress for all IO operations in one window.
>    Here I want to ask other developers on their ideas about how this should
>    look and work.
>    Some people already reported about BeOS and NextStep ( ? )  using something
>    like this. As I didn't see BeOS and NextStep in action, I don't know how
>    does it look there.
>    My idea is to make something in style of lightweight kget window with a
>    little different columns then in kget.
>    We need one column for type of the operation ( copy, move, delete etc. )
>    I don't know whether to show a simpe text for this, or to use icons ( may
>    be even animated as in kget ).
>    Other columns - similar to kget ( progress in size, progress in count of
>    files, speed, remaining time, address ( URL ) )
>    I want to make these columns configurable - user will choose what he wants
>    to see.
>    Dialog will remember its size and position on the screen.
>    There will be several buttons for some operations, but not too many.
>    All that should be needed are - pause, resume and cancel.
>    Oh and another one for docking, the dialog will be dockable.
> 
>    Dialog will show only when needed and hide itself automatically when there
>    is nothing to show.
> 
>    I am opened to ideas and suggestions for look and feel of this dialog.
>    So feel free to suggest.
> 
> 3. KIOLittleProgressDialog - this is a little progress widget for embedding in
>    statusbar. It shows progress in two ways.
>    First way is like Netscape does it -  a simple small progress bar.
>    Second way is a text display : e.g. " 90%  12.4 kB/s "
>    User can switch between these two types of display with a left mouse click.
>    Right mouse button opwns a popup menu with only one button - Cancel.
> 
>    I will extend this widget to show combined progress for a list of kioslaves.
>    This is required e.g. for konqueror.
> 
> Usage of dialogs :
> -------------
> Selecting of these progress dialogs is somewhat different then what it was.
> 
> So far, the progress dialogs where opened automatically.
> To disable them, user called job->enableGUI( false );
> 
> >From now, instead of enableGUI() , program will call setGUImode(  mode ),
> where mode is one of the following : NONE, SIMPLE, LIST or LITTLE
> As you have already found out - NONE is for disabling GUI for the KIOJob.
> 
> Program can switch type of the GUI for individual KIOJobs on the fly.
> It's possible to hide / show / iconify / deiconify  Simple and  List dialogs
> programmaticaly.
> 
> Usage of KIOLittleProgressDialog is little different.
> This dialog will be a part of some application :
> 
>   KIOLittleProgressDlg *littleProgress;
>   littleProgress = new KIOLittleProgressDlg( myStatusBar );
>   myStatusBar->insertWidget( littleProgress, littleProgress->width() , ID_PROGRESS );
> 
>    ...................
>    KIOJob* job;
>    job->setGUImode( KIOJob::LITTLE );
> 
>   // this connects job with a little progress dialog
>    job->connectProgress( littleProgress );
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> I will commit the stuff probably today and you can try at least a little
> progress widget. I tried hard to make it look good :-)
> 
> 
> Comments / suggestions ?

Looks very good to me!

You may want to have a look at Opera on Windows. They feature a transfer
window that uses something like a QListView and show more detail for the
selected transfer. But I am not allowed to say more. Just look at Opera
for Windows.

Bye
Torben

> 
>  bye
> 
> 		Matt
> 
> 
> 
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