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[Jonathan Blackhall <johnny.one.eye@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jarlath Reidy <jarlathreidy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If this is the wrong forum to bring this up, apologies in advance:
>
> I'm wondering if the current form of the file-transfer dialog is up for
> discussion. I wanted to dismiss this dialog (see attachment). I was fairly
> certain that the red X to the right would abort the copy operation, so I
> didn't click that.
>
> But what about the red x on the top left of the window? It could cancel the
> operation. Then I thought 'when I close nautilus, it doesn't delete all my
> files. It just dismisses that view of my filesystem.' - so it probably just
> closes the window without effecting the operation.
>
> Then I thought 'But this is an operation dialog, not a passive window
> interpreting a view of the system.'
>
> I clicked it anyway, and sure enough - I was safe. Could this dialog be
> improved? A file transfer is a more delicate operation than say, Rhythmbox
> playing music and some reassurance from the interface would have made the
> experience far more comfortable before taking the plunge and clicking on
> that. I can live with my music stopping, but I don't want to restart a large
> transfer.
>
> I know, I could have minimized it. But I guessed from the panel indicator
> that I had a better option, which we do. Should it be publicised a bit more?


I think this is actually similar to the issue I emailed about
yesterday.  Although you say that this situation is different from
Rhythmbox, it's only apparently different in the sense that it's
easier to test what will happen when you're not afraid of the
consequences.

I'm more and more intrigued by the idea of using Windicators (such as
maybe an "eye icon") as a means of "hiding" a window (where
applicable) but continuing the current operation from background
process and being accessible by an indicator applet, such as the file
transfer applet as you're suggesting.  Of course a "show" option for
the window should also be accessible from the indicator applet, such
as is present in the Rhythmbox applet currently.

Jonathan