Closing "File Operations" into panel is redundant with minimizing
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
nautilus 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Lucid
When moving or copying files that take a long time, a "File Operations" window opens. This window is both minimizable and closable. Closing it does not stop or cancel the operation; instead, it effectively minimizes the window into a status menu aka indicator (or, upstream, into a notification area item). While the window is open, the menu appears with a "Show copy dialogue" item, regardless of whether the progress window is currently focused or not.
It is not sensible design to have two different destinations into which a window can be minimized. The usual argument here is that minimizing it into the standard window list takes up too much space; but if so, the answer shouldn't be to memorize a different way of minimizing it, it should be to find a way to make standard minimization take up less space. The extra width is not so onerous that we should delay fixing the inconsistency until after that happens.
As I wrote in <https:/
I suggest that:
* the "File Operations" window be made minimizable but not closable
* Nautilus's libappindicator status menu be removed completely.
Making this change would invalidate bug 507486.
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: | added: kernel-series-unknown |
tags: | removed: kernel-series-unknown |
tags: | added: nautilus |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → papercuts-nautilus |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | papercuts-nautilus → papercuts-s-nautilus |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
thank you for your bug report, the suggestion there overlooks what has been discussed before on IRC, copies are not something the user want to interact with or keep open on screen cluttering the tasks lists. The issue is not only on the tasklist widget but also when using alt-tab cycling between things you are doing. Could we consider doing a copy as triggering a system action, once the copy started the copy dialog could be closed since from there the only thing the user care about is to know how much has been copied and when the copy will be done which let the system indicator showing the status of the service