Need a way to cancel a transfer
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kdebase (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: kdebase
Ok..I like what has been done with the little info area; where informative messages pop-up from, keeping you in the know. Much better than before when the messages would pop up and then instantly disappear, never to be seen again.That said, I think it may have gone a little bit too far (or not far enough, depending on how you look at it).
I was uploading a large file to an FTP site today using dolphin. It used to be that there was a dialog box that appeared showing progress and, more relevant to this discussion, a cancel button. When I dragged my large file from my computer pane to the FTP pane it dutifully added an entry to the info area letting me know I had 5 more hours to wait for it to finish uploading and even showed me a progress bar. Cool so far, except that I had dragged the wrong file over. Try as I might, I could not find any way to tell it to stop, short of logging off and back on.
I am thinking that a little red X on that info/progress-meter would go a long way towards making me happier than I already am with Karmic.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 15:53:53 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/dolphin
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: dolphin 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: kdebase
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-
Well it turns out that there is a way to cancel. I did not recognize that the little arrow pointing to the line was clickable or that if clicked it would open a dialog with more information, including the stop button. This can be closed as "befuddled user error".