no clue is given of whether computing total size of folder is done

[Teo]

- right click on a folder with a lot of gigabytes of contents
- select "Properties"
- look at the total size

The size shown increases while it is computed, until it finally stops increasing.

No clue is given whether it is done computing or not.

Wnen it stops increasing for a few seconds for whatever reason, you wonder whether it has reached the total or not, and you have no way to know except wait a few seconds more, and if it still doesn't grow, you can guess it's done.

A waiting animated icon or progress bar or "computing..." message should be shown temporarily while the size is being computed, and disappear when it's done.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu4.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-19.33-generic 3.0.27
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 28 16:18:36 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-07 (142 days ago)

[Teo (teo1978)]

Are you sure this is a dup? #386233 seems to deal with the cases where some property actually changes while they are been displayed. Here I'm talking about when you open a folder's properties dialog and the size is computed "for the first time", and you don't even know when it's done computing it.

Also this is definitely more than "whishlist". It gives incomplete or plain wrong information (since you don't know how long you have to stare at it before the size is correct, at any time you are encouraged to assume what you see is the total size of the contents of the folder)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no, I'm not sure about the bug number but I'm sure it's a duplicate, seing the post release bug activity I don't have hours to look for exact numbers though, feel free to search the correct one and fix the reference though ;-)