[idea]Moving files in Nautlius

[axlpxl]

Ehen moving files in nautilus, you should be able to see the file transfer speed in the "moving file" window.

[mojo]

heh? This feature has been added in Nautilus for age. I think you might use too old ver of Nautilus.

[JDay]

Well, I think he means "n kb/s". I think that the progress bar is sufficient. Most users won't understand (or need) the speed measurement. It might be nice to have an estimated time remaining (providing it can be guessed fairly accurately; innacurate estimations are worse than none at all).

[lolocaust]

It'd be nice to have transfer speed across network files, but I don't see any point on local-to-local transfers.

[axlpxl]

I meant Mb/s yes. Estimated time would be nice to.

[exosyst]

i would like a speed quote and ETA. Looks like Vista may be implementing these as well. One other thing with nautilus, why can't i right click a read only folder and drag to my desktop to make a shortcut. its a very useful feature, esp for people using NTFS who need access to music etc.

[RawMustard]

I use to love the way Gnome did it in the old days with the Kb's being shown just under the file/folder being copied/moved to. An extension to this would look really techno modern :)

[poptones]

...with nautilus, why can't i right click a read only folder and drag to my desktop to make a shortcut

An even better option is being able to middle-click-drag and being presented the option "link here, copy here, or move here."

Try it...

[stoffe]

I really would like to see transfer rates too. It's much better measure on if everything is proceding normally. If there's an issue of not displaying too much information, I suggest that it be made a tooltip for when hovering over progressbar and filename. That's useful extra information available when you need it, and otherwise not getting in the way.

[poptones]

Not trolling here, seriously... how often do you use nautilus for moving large numbers of files? Just this morning I went to open a folder containing about 6000 objects and after like ten minutes of nautilus thrashing my hard drive I killed it and opened a command window.

Are you talking about for FTP transfers and stuff?

[stoffe]

Not trolling here, seriously... how often do you use nautilus for moving large numbers of files? Just this morning I went to open a folder containing about 6000 objects and after like ten minutes of nautilus thrashing my hard drive I killed it and opened a command window.

Are you talking about for FTP transfers and stuff?
I do use it quite often, although as you point out, sometimes I have to resort to commandline and/or other programs. For some tasks, that is also just much more convenient.

However, if Nautilus is doing a poor job of managing files, that is a bug to be fixed, not a reason in itself to dismiss feature requests that require the file manager to be able to manage files. :)

And yes, it's probably more useful for network transfers, but it could give useful information for normal copy/move too. In either case, I think the same information should be shown for all modes, no matter which information that is finally decided to be.

[lean]

Gnome really should show the ETA.
Think about it.

Everytime you download a file, you look at how much time it takes - then you look at the clock to see when it is finnished. AAaah, the download will be finnished in two in the morning, or 8 o clock and so on.

Maybe when there are under 10 minutes, it should display the time remaining. But otherwise, just show when the download will be finnished.

[EmBiaSSuS]

Well, I saw it on Knoppix KDE, I think that KDE has this feature implemented... Maybe interesting to have it on our Nautilus :D, and, for the most newbies, it would be nice that you could hide the "detailed info", like the bookmarks arrow in firefox...

[ssam]

i like the eta idea.

most users dont care how many kb/s. only nerds really care.

also how do you calculate the kb/s, some apps just do (bit downloaded so far)/(time elapsed) others do a average over the last n seconds. there are probably more complex ways of doing it. does anyone seriously think that gnome, should a whole list of statistics, (peak speed, running average, standard deviation, etc).

a line has to be drawn somewhere. gnome should be elegent and functional. a progess bar is good, vissual, functional. a time remaining / eta is handy. any more numbers risk cluttering. i think i'd find a size useful, but i could live with out it.

may be there could be a fold down panel with more info. speed, size, current file etc.

[exosyst]

An even better option is being able to middle-click-drag and being presented the option "link here, copy here, or move here."

Try it...
So what do I do on my laptop then with only two mouse buttons and a scroller? Why cant i configure this action? Its also annoying i can resize windows as that requires middle click as well! some options would be nice!

[Wolki]

So what do I do on my laptop then with only two mouse buttons and a scroller? Why cant i configure this action? Its also annoying i can resize windows as that requires middle click as well! some options would be nice!

You can emulate the middle button by pressing the left and right buttons at the same time. If it doesn't work, you need to enable that feature in your xorg.conf. By default it is enabled, if I'm not mistaken.