Nautilus' file copy dialog cannot be opened again after closing because it does not use the app indicator system

[John Kuang]

In 12.10 and before, when you copy files in Nautilus, a window titled "File Operations" will open to show you the progress, and to offer a button to stop the operation. You could close this window by clicking on the X and an icon will pop up in the system tray notifying you that the file copy operation is still ongoing. If you clicked on it, the "File Operations" window will reopen.

In 13.04, due to Ubuntu removing the system tray whitelist, once you close the "File Operations" window, you can't open it again because the icon no longer shows up in system tray as it probably doesn't use the app indicator system. This means if you close the window, you can no longer cancel the copy operation and have to wait for it to complete.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Kuang (xiphosurus)]

I just noticed that if you right click on the nautilus launcher icon during a copy operation, 2 new actions in the quicklist will show up: "show copy dialog" and "cancel all in-progress actions". Not too sure when this was implemented, but since this is an effective solution to the problem, I've closed this bug report.