User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092621 Iceweasel/3.0.3 (Zenwalk GNU Linux) Build Identifier: Today I've seen a nice feature in Mac OS X Finder: If you have a copy window running and start another copy process it won't open another window but add the the new copy progress bar to the old window. It looks a bit like the download manager of Firefox with multiple progress bars. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This sounds quite interesting. An idea which I had was to be able to queue copies to the same filesystem. Sometimes I copy a lot of things to a memory stick, and then you have 4 different copy windows, all trying to do their thing, and everything is quite slow. It would be nice to somehow queue these (for the same filesystem), so that only one copy is going at the same time. And make it optional that they are queued.
The queuing feature sounds good, too. If there would be this all in one copy window, the queued copies could have a "start" button in it.
The feature of copy queuing is not all too uncommon. I looked on some forums, and I've seen people looking for such a feature in a file manager. I believe that there is also this request for Nautilus. But still, this could be the feature that sets Thunar apart from the pack! ;-) All that to say: this is not really that original of an idea, and I think the feature would be very useful.
Indeed this would be very helpful. Last time when a friend brought his USB-HD to copy music from my PC to it, he had around 30 copy processes running at the same time. This only slows down the process and produces fragmented files on the USB-HD.
This would be a great improvement. Thunar could grab all the copy/move commands from the user, then send the concerned files to a list in the copying process' window. It would allow reordering the files, removing files you don't want from the list, drop more files to the list.... And _especially_ it would prevent transfer speed drops you get when you have multiple copy processes writing/reading the same filesystem. A good example of what i mean is a Windows software called SuperCopier. https://sourceforge.net/projects/supercopier/ (it also supports resuming transfers) Is it even possible? Thanks
Of course queuing per target file system or target drive is possible. Keep in mind, however, that Thunar is suppose to be simple. It's not a full-fledged file transfer manager. So to that feature I'd have to say no. However, this is not what the original request was about. It was about merging the file operation progress dialogs into one and that's something that has been implemented for Thunar 1.2 and Xfce 4.8. I'm closing this bug as fixed as the original request has been implemented. If any of you want to continue discussing advanced file transfer management, please do so in a separate feature request.