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remaining time dialog has wrong time
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RESOLVED: WORKSFORME

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Description Super R 2008-11-07 00:48:38 CET
First of all, Thunar rocks!

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but rather a small detail. When copying a file from one location to another, there is a dialog box that appears to show the time remaining to complete the transfer. The time eventually says "1 Minute". This should actually read "2 Minutes" since the next thing that shows up says "59 Seconds..." The "1 Minute" stays visible for 1 minute and then goes to 59 seconds.

It is misleading. I think there should be an additional minute added to the estimated time and it should go from 2 minutes directly to 59 seconds. Or, from 2 minutes, then 1 minute (only for the 1 second that it deserves), and then to 59 seconds.

Sorry about the rant. I hope you can understand what I am talking about.
Comment 1 Harald Judt 2009-09-26 22:13:23 CEST
Created attachment 2550 
Time estimation patch for the progress dialog

This patch makes the following changes to the progress dialog:

* show hours if remaining time is greater than 59 minutes (instead of 60)
  I did not test this due to lack of time, but it should work.
* show "x minutes" if remaining time is greater than 60 seconds
* show "1 minute" if remaining time is greater than 50 seconds
* add +1 to the estimated values of hours and minutes shown in the progress bar
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-09-26 15:47:05 CEST
*** Bug 8414 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-09-26 16:13:02 CEST
*** Bug 4140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-10-01 16:56:56 CEST
Check some other applications, but also firefox goes from "4 minutes remaining" to "3 minutes, 50 seconds remaining"

Bug #4585

Reported by:
Super R
Reported on: 2008-11-07
Last modified on: 2012-10-28
Duplicates (2):
  • 4140 Erroneous time estimate on slow deletion
  • 8414 copy/move time is "-1 minute"

People

Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
3 users

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unspecified

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