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No, it's about showing it long enough so you know what the dialog is and what it's doing. If a dialog popped up for the brief amount of time it actually takes
by radley 10y ago
No, it's about showing it long enough so you know what the dialog is and what it's doing.
If a dialog popped up for the brief amount of time it actually takes to unzip, it might freak out users: "huh? WTF was that??"
- arnarbi 10y agoThen just don't show a dialog.
- leereeves 10y agoThen users wonder "Did it actually save?"
- jessaustin 10y agoSo just pop a click-anywhere "Saved!" notification.
- egeozcan 10y agoThen users will keep clicking on save until that notification comes, when your save takes just a bit longer than usual.
- jessaustin 10y agoBy hypothesis (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13135385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13135385), the operation is effectively instant. If it weren't, a UI on its own thread could notice that and act accordingly.
- arnarbi 10y agoWe were talking about unzipping. If successful, the unzipped contents appear next to the archive.
- yoz-y 10y agoMaybe a new type of dialog could help? Rather than showing this blinking things, just show a notification of style "24 archives extracted" (kind of like what forklift does)
- kalleboo 10y agoThe Finder already handles this differently for file copy operations - you don't get a file copy progress dialog if it takes less time than you need to react (just an audio confirmation). It seems like Archive Utility didn't get that extra attention though.
- radley 10y agoMaybe it's a minor security feature. Unzipping something in the background might be something they want to always call attention to.