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I tried not to troll this, but these kinds of dialogs are present in GNOME for long time: https://twitpic.com/6aiqxt https://twitpic.com/6aiqxt - at the end of

I tried not to troll this, but these kinds of dialogs are present in GNOME for long time: https://twitpic.com/6aiqxt https://twitpic.com/6aiqxt - at the end of the day, that's what most of end users are going to notice. I have high doubts about the pause button too, will it freeze the window to 'Not Responding' or it will just pause the operation in progress...

ruethewhirled 15y ago
Realistically how many windows users have even heard of GNOME? Their not going to notice. And of course pausing it is not going to freeze the window to "Not Responding". The people working at Microsoft are actually really smart I don't think you tried hard enough
- moondowner 15y ago
  Well, in Windows 7 (on my PC) in 1 out of 3 times the window freezes when clicking Cancel during a copy or move operation, my reasons to doubt come from there. And I'm talking about a Core 2 Duo machine with 4 Gigs of ram.
halo 15y ago
It's interesting to note the difference between the Windows 8 dialog has compared to the GNOME one. You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog. On Windows 8, the dialog shows both where the files are coming from and where they're going to. By default, Windows hides most information in favour of a percentage. Click "More details" and Windows shows you much more information than GNOME does - Windows has emphasis on power user information. The Windows dialog's layout is much better. The GNOME dialog's buttons stick out. GNOME's dialogs are really ugly and this is no exception. It really shows the difference in polish between the two products. My criticisms of Windows' dialog is that 'flat buttons' are aesthetically appealing but not particularly user-friendly, and perhaps Windows should show filesize and progress by default.
- sapphirecat 15y ago
  > You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog. IIRC, if you "closed" the gnome one, it went to the systray, which is a UI problem all its own. Also, you can pause the win8 operations, not just cancel them. As for ugliness, this seems to be a shot of Hardy, give or take, so 2008-ish. I would say that the Ambiance theme that debuted to much controversy in 2010 is improved over the screenshot. (And neither of these are Gnome's default.)

ruethewhirled 15y ago

Realistically how many windows users have even heard of GNOME? Their not going to notice. And of course pausing it is not going to freeze the window to "Not Responding". The people working at Microsoft are actually really smart I don't think you tried hard enough

moondowner 15y ago
Well, in Windows 7 (on my PC) in 1 out of 3 times the window freezes when clicking Cancel during a copy or move operation, my reasons to doubt come from there. And I'm talking about a Core 2 Duo machine with 4 Gigs of ram.

halo 15y ago

It's interesting to note the difference between the Windows 8 dialog has compared to the GNOME one. You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog. On Windows 8, the dialog shows both where the files are coming from and where they're going to. By default, Windows hides most information in favour of a percentage. Click "More details" and Windows shows you much more information than GNOME does - Windows has emphasis on power user information. The Windows dialog's layout is much better. The GNOME dialog's buttons stick out. GNOME's dialogs are really ugly and this is no exception. It really shows the difference in polish between the two products. My criticisms of Windows' dialog is that 'flat buttons' are aesthetically appealing but not particularly user-friendly, and perhaps Windows should show filesize and progress by default.

sapphirecat 15y ago
> You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog. IIRC, if you "closed" the gnome one, it went to the systray, which is a UI problem all its own. Also, you can pause the win8 operations, not just cancel them. As for ugliness, this seems to be a shot of Hardy, give or take, so 2008-ish. I would say that the Ambiance theme that debuted to much controversy in 2010 is improved over the screenshot. (And neither of these are Gnome's default.)