Robust Transfer Appearance Suggestions
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Robust Transfer Appearance Suggestions
Just a few suggestions for improving the appearance of the robust transfer dialog. Could the vertical window size be reduced, as well as the font size? I find the window looks a little bloated. Also, the time estimate is a control when it should probably be an indicator to match the others.
Sure, although the robust transfer uses screen realestate more efficiently than tc 
I just thought it wasn't quite as clean and efficient as other xplorer2 windows.
On this topic, it might also me nice to change the "Remaining (estimate)" indicator to "Bytes Transfered" when the transfer is complete, and then update the "Speed" indicator to be the true average transfer speed (Total bytes/total time). You would then have your self a disk-benchmarking tool.
I always like this type of feature for roughly guaging my different hard drive, vs network vs internet performance. Helps me to decide when to work on a local copy vs a remote copy.
I just thought it wasn't quite as clean and efficient as other xplorer2 windows.
On this topic, it might also me nice to change the "Remaining (estimate)" indicator to "Bytes Transfered" when the transfer is complete, and then update the "Speed" indicator to be the true average transfer speed (Total bytes/total time). You would then have your self a disk-benchmarking tool.
I always like this type of feature for roughly guaging my different hard drive, vs network vs internet performance. Helps me to decide when to work on a local copy vs a remote copy.
i wouldn't put too much importance on those transfer speeds
first of all x2 sums both read and write speeds
even time wasted in error reports and overwrite dialogs is also contributing to the overall transfer rate
it is only meant as light entertainment during long copies
a real minimalistic implementation i'm planning for the next update will just have a progress bar and the 3 existing buttons with no more info of any sort. People getting bored could always watch narayan's training video during large transfers
first of all x2 sums both read and write speeds
even time wasted in error reports and overwrite dialogs is also contributing to the overall transfer rate
it is only meant as light entertainment during long copies
a real minimalistic implementation i'm planning for the next update will just have a progress bar and the 3 existing buttons with no more info of any sort. People getting bored could always watch narayan's training video during large transfers
caveat emperor. Although if you calculate it as total bytes/total time it will give the true average transfer rate, but would still include any error reporting time and dialog time of course.i wouldn't put too much importance on those transfer speeds
first of all x2 sums both read and write speeds
even time wasted in error reports and overwrite dialogs is also contributing to the overall transfer rate
That sounds more like the xplorer2 i'm used too. Although if the progress bar is going to jump around as xplorer2 finds new directories then maybe it will be more confusing then helpful? Thanks for the simplification though.a real minimalistic implementation i'm planning for the next update will just have a progress bar and the 3 existing buttons with no more info of any sort.
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longfellow
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But it is amusing during short copies, too! I recently did a copy of 30-odd Kb of files and robust copy estimated a transfer time of 44 minutes! Of course, by the time I read this the files were copied. :)nikos wrote:it is only meant as light entertainment during long copies
The upgrade you're planning for the dialog interface sounds great.
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longfellow
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