Re: 'file operation in progress' indicator?
- From: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:00:04 +1100
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:51:08 +0300
Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:03 AM, <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Liviu, I presume you refer to the GtkSpinner widget available in gtk >=
> > 2.20.
> >
> Yes, I think so. I am not sure that this counts as 2.20, but here
> Midori 0.2.2 built against GTK+ 2.19.6 features the spinner.
>
> > I agree that a more 'mobile' indication of things-in-progress would be
> > slightly more intuitive. However I think that in most cases, this would
> > actually not be seen much by the user, depending of course on whether a
> > slow task is underway.
> >
> I can think of 'normal' use cases where this would be visible and the
> user would monitor the notification, such as copying big files.
>
> > IMO the status-bar is already very full, when messages are present at both
> > left and right ends of the bar. When the main window is smallish, such
> > messages overlap, and the result is quite a mess. I presume that adding a
> > spinner would not impact e2 performance, but would occupy the space of a
> > couple of text characters.
> >
> If space is an issue, there would several ways to gain some. The
> current text is 'file operation in progress' is perhaps 'too'
> complete. I think that it could be shortened, without loss in meaning,
> to 'operation in progress' or even 'in progress'. Adding a spinner to
> the shortened string could become acceptable.
>
> What do you think?
For experimental purposes at least, I changed svn to show "Working" plus a
spinner, for gtk >= 2.20. I haven't used or evaluated it.
Regards
Tom
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