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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David, your mockup looks pretty.. becoming more like a hybrid between our
notification bubbles and and interactive progress indication dialog..
i like the visual  this is taking!

some ideas on this:

REMOVE THE TITLE BAR
why?
a) imagine you hit the cancel button..
the window would close immediately, since there is nothing left to learn or
to interact with in this progress dialog.
b) minimizing this dialog should hide it, until you are notified about its
completion.

PAUSE OPERATION
add a pause button beside the "cancel" and you'll have an easily
discoverable "pause" feature.

ADD "CONTINUE IN BACKGROUND" BUTTON
all that's missing now is a way to let the computer know that you have
acknowledged the informative part and you don't wish to interact..
something like "continue in background".
winrar does this quite well ;)

OBJECT TITLE IN PROGRESS BAR
while copying, display the title of the object being copied in the progress
bar.
putting this information anywhere else in the dialog window doesn't make too
much sense.

REMOVE GEEKY INFORMATION
don't display details like filesize vs transferred data.
the progress bar should indicate that sufficiently.
perhaps add a [ + ] button for details on the operation.


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 00:23, David Hamm <davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was just board. Note the whole thing is color inverse from above.
>