When transfering large files, the user should have an interactive visual notification of the ongoing transfer. The traditional way of doing this is through a status icon in the notification tray applet.
Actual behaviour
Since GtkStatusIcon is deprecated, this functionality is being lost on caja.
Steps to reproduce the behaviour
Copy a large file (several GBs) from one caja window to another
Watch the system tray
MATE general version
1.21
Package version
1.21
Linux Distribution
upstream
Aditional Notes
This system could be made optional somehow, through a gsettings flag, for example.
An alternative would be to determine if the status icon is embedded, and if not then display the new notifications popup. Also, we can have basic heuristics to determine whether the file transfer takes long enough that it warrants a status icon.
vkareh
commented
6 years ago
Expected behaviour
When transfering large files, the user should have an interactive visual notification of the ongoing transfer. The traditional way of doing this is through a status icon in the notification tray applet.
Actual behaviour
Since GtkStatusIcon is deprecated, this functionality is being lost on caja.
Steps to reproduce the behaviour
MATE general version
1.21
Package version
1.21
Linux Distribution
upstream
Aditional Notes
This system could be made optional somehow, through a gsettings flag, for example. An alternative would be to determine if the status icon is embedded, and if not then display the new notifications popup. Also, we can have basic heuristics to determine whether the file transfer takes long enough that it warrants a status icon.
Reference discussion: #1007