"Preparing..." Then when it finished after whatever time it takes, window closes.
Would you care to elaborate?
Created attachment 7502 Dialog I'm talking about When you are coping/moving files the dialog has the bar properly progressing. When you delete stuff instead, that's everything you'll ever get.
I see. Tracking down this issue, I found the _thunar_io_jobs_unlink function, its name is misleading, but it's responsible for files deletion. I didn't see in it any indication that it updates the progress dialog. Needs more investigation...
*** Bug 14435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 7845 Fix patch Finally I found some time to investigate this issue. Surprisingly it's was rather easy, it seems the previous maintainers forgot a couple of lines while migrating from thunar-vfs to gio.
Andre Miranda referenced this bugreport in commit e332e1e7421e135fd3d51771e857897a1da3e41e Update progress when deleting files (Bug #14102) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit?id=e332e1e7421e135fd3d51771e857897a1da3e41e
Andre Miranda referenced this bugreport in commit 86b7f752c88ec413f11b268a16af4ee8df213811 Update progress when deleting files (Bug #14102) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit?id=86b7f752c88ec413f11b268a16af4ee8df213811
Fixed, it will be available in the next 1.8.x release. Thanks for reporting.
It's fixed in -git, thanks. Though it still misses any kind of "time estimation" (still unlikely copy)
Andre Miranda referenced this bugreport in commit f61844b6c18e7d9a9c46c4f2ccde68cab7d5ff13 Show numeric(%) progress in file operation dialog (Bug #14102) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit?id=f61844b6c18e7d9a9c46c4f2ccde68cab7d5ff13
Andre Miranda referenced this bugreport in commit 667e1e10a25bb8a23dea685a89e6e775c7b430c9 Show numeric(%) progress in file operation dialog (Bug #14102) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit?id=667e1e10a25bb8a23dea685a89e6e775c7b430c9
In order to add time estimation, we would need to use ThunarTransferJob instead of ThunarSimpleJob, too much work for little benefit. I'm more interested in optimizing the delete operation so time estimation won't be necessary.
I appreciate the making it faster and percentage (the "empty space" on the bottom at least feels meaningful) things. But this asymmetry between copy and deletion still feels off and a missing feature. Besides, I mean.. Even 100/Δ%*s could be already called a day under some pov.