[Feature Request] Unity progress bar for video exports

[Aditya V]

This is a general feature request.

When exporting videos form Openshot, I wish there was a way of telling its progress from the Unity Launcher, similar to how Transmission and Firefox have it. I think it's simply too much work (for such a simple operation) to click on Openshot (and go back to my previous application) and see what the exporting progress is versus just peeking over to the Launcher and seeing the progress right there. It's just inconsistent in my opinion.

Thanks in advance!

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

I think you slightly misunderstood me - I want it to be just like how Firefox does the download progress bars. I can click on open windows perfectly fine. The main reasons I'm asking for this are that it will be faster (versus switching to the window) and more efficient and it will be more consistent.

[jongleur (wendorff)]

I don't see it as a bug, but I agree it would be a nice enhancement if that would be possible.
The unity Launcher shows the openshot window and for some other programs it shows small status notifications as well.

* running file transfers show a progress bar
* thunderbird shows the number of unread mails

it would be great to show the progress of a running export there as well.
Sure: it's not that much work to open the window again, but video export often takes a long time, and you would like to more or less forget it for a while, but to be possible to get the current progress state at one glance.

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Ok, whatever I try to do (using https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI#Python_Example), I keep getting this error:

------------------------- ERROR 2 ------------------------------
Failed to import 'from openshot.openshot import main'
Error Message: could not import gobject (error was: ImportError('When using gi.repository you must not import static modules like "gobject". Please change all occurrences of "import gobject" to "from gi.repository import GObject".',))

I'll unassign myself from this bug for now since I'm not sure how I'm supposed to solve this, and I've already tried the suggestion above.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

@kroq-gar78 - That example you link to is a GTK3 GObject Introspection based bit of code. OpenShot is still GTK2 based, all of the code needs converting (as the error suggests) to be able to use GObject instrospection.

There is an incomplete GTK3 branch (the timeline doesn't work), but we hope to complete the GTK3 migration for the next major release of OpenShot.

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Ah, that's what I was suspecting. Thank you for clearing that up :)