On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Kirk Bridger wrote: > > The only use case I can think of (because I've experienced it) is > using pause to prioritize specific copying. If we have multiple > things going over the wire, and suddenly I want one to be the only > thing going, to make it get there as fast as possible, I'd pause the > lower priority ones.
Interesting. For that purpose, how about a "Pause All Others" button instead of a "Pause" button? That way if you wanted one task to be the only one going, instead of having to click a button for each of the *other* tasks, you'd click only one button in the section for *that* task. (If Nautilus included such a button, probably it would be in the expandable section, since it would be needed infrequently.) > Now maybe that introduces the need for explicit prioritizing, but that > seems quite a complicated solution and concept. > ... One possibility (which might be silly) is to allow drag-and-drop rearrangement of tasks in the progress window. That might avoid having to add extra visible elements for reordering (though there would be the usual problem with drag-and-drop, of how to make the function keyboard-accessible). It would be easy to let this drift into something complicated that looked like a download manager, which would be ugly and cramped in the usual case of presenting just one move or copy at a time. Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
