On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 10:14 -0400, Saad Shakhshir wrote: > It would be much more meaningful to the user to be able to view the > progress of file extraction instead of the simple 'busy' dialog that > pops up when using the Gnome Archive Manager. I'm not sure what the > application is called by default in gnome, but I use Ubuntu and there > it is called file-roller. I'm attaching a link to a screenshot of the > current progress dialog, which is really not a progress dialog but > just an indicator that the file is being extracted. Since file > extraction is usually a CPU-intensive and (for large files) time > consuming process, it would be much more useful if this dialog did > indeed display a progress bar.
This is mainly due to the lack of useful feedback from the command-line utilities file-roller uses to handle the decompression. I'm sure that it would have a proper progress dialogue, if it weren't for the short-comings of the command-line utilities. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
