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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jarlath Reidy wrote on 11/05/10 23:37:
>...
> 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.
>...

To avoid that kind of confusion, a progress window -- a window that
embodies a task the computer is completing, and closes itself when done
- -- should not have a close button in its title bar at all.

The failure to systematically distinguish progress windows, dialogs, and
other window types is a long-standing design flaw in Gnome.

In 2008 I wrote a specification for Nautilus's progress window.
<http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus/ProgressWindow>

- -- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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