[Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive?

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:11 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> > How much effort would it be to add such an copy-to-USB option to the Journal
> > hover palette? Is this something I could do with the help of my knowledgable
> > flatmate Mr. Innocenti?
> 
> Yep, shouldn't be hard nor a lot of code.


As we're there, we might want to add a progress display for long copy
operations. Currently, if you drop a large file on the journal icon, the
UI freezes for a long time with no indication of progress, tempting the
user to perform a hard reboot (and thus corrupting the datastore :-).

If nobody has time to implement a nice progress bar, at least we could
put on the busy cursor (which is animated in our cursor theme, iirc).

The copy could probably be made fully asynchronous, but with no progress
indication, there's a potential for users to extract USB sticks before
the operation is finished.

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