Bug 272740

Summary:	kde4 regression: directory copy progress not always visible in window title (no plasma)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Stefan Endrullis <stefan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Marcin Gryszkalis <mg>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.6
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Stefan Endrullis 2011-05-07 22:23:54 UTC

Version:           2.3.0 (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

In KDE 3 I could copy a directory via sftp and always knew how far the copy process already is, because I could already see the percentage of the progress in the progress title and therefore also in the task bar.

In the new krusader 2.3.0 the percentage of the progress is usually not visible in the window title.  Most of the time the title shows only "Kopiervorgang" (German for "copy process").  Sometimes, and only for some milliseconds it shows the progress in percentage, but it immediately disappears again.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Copy a directory over sftp.

Actual Results:  
Progress of copy process is usually not visible in the window title.

Expected Results:  
Always display the progress of the copy process in the window title.

Comment 1 Marcin Gryszkalis 2011-05-07 22:42:05 UTC

In KDE4 Krusader uses KDE's KIO modules - you can open notification area and see progress bar, details etc. As you can run many jobs at the same time then it's not possible to display such info in Krusader's main info.

For example see screenshots at
http://pindablog.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/jobs-and-notifications-in-the-plasma-systray/

I will close this bug as "invalid" if you don't mind.

Comment 2 Stefan Endrullis 2011-05-07 23:03:22 UTC

Thanks for replying that fast.

First I have to clarify that it's not the krusader main window I excepted to see the progress of the copy process in its title.  There are separate windows, one for each copy process, that show the progress of each process (same as in KDE 3).  Does KIO open these progress windows?  Then I have to file the bug report against KIO, I think.  BTW, using the system tray notification as you suggested is rather inappropriate for me, because
- you can see the progress only when you open the notification panel (which you do not want to see all the time, and therefore, you always have to use the mouse to get to this information again)
- I actually do not have plasma on my machines (I'm still using the KDE 3 desktop, since it's much faster)

Comment 3 Marcin Gryszkalis 2011-05-07 23:14:14 UTC

I would say it's a bit "non-standard" environment. I don't know KIO internals. You have "Version:           2.3.0 (using KDE 4.6.2)" in original report, so I guess you use KIOs from kdelibs-4.6.2? 

We could try to pass this bug to KIO people and check if thay can help.

Comment 4 Stefan Endrullis 2011-05-07 23:45:11 UTC

Yes, KIOs is from kdelibs-4.6.2.

Although KDE 3 may be a non-standard environment now, there are actually quite a lot users not having plasma (gnome user, xcfe users, ...) but using popular KDE applications such as krusader.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-04-23 22:01:53 UTC

Using an older environment isn't really supported. The task manager buttons in Plasma 5 at least display a progress bar that moves across them.

Comment 6 Stefan Endrullis 2018-04-24 07:36:51 UTC

Yeah, let's close this issue.  The progress of copy processes is visible again.  The issue is anyway very, very old (2011).