NetAccess::statInternal and showing job progress

[Vitor Boschi]

Hiding notifications when opening small remote files would also be nice. I
find unuseful (and even somewhat annoying) to show them when the download
time is so small that you didn't even see the progress bar.

Vitor

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:

> On July 16, 2010 11:42:48 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > hi ...
> >
> > NetAccess::statInternal is a private method and is used by calls to the
> > NetAccess methods for stat and exists. if the url is remote, it shows job
> > progress. this means that for every file that is stat'd or checked for
> > existene over the network (e.g. fish), we get a job notification.
> >
> > this results in apps like ksnapshot, when used to save to a remote
> > location, throwing up job notifications on start up.
> >
> > it also means causing a lot of traffic in the job UI server
> infrastructure
> > just to show what is, imho, fairly uninteresting information to the user.
> >
> > i have a simple patch here which changes this:
> >
>
> +1000
> *hugs*
> yaaay, less unuseful notifications! :)
>
> (note: anyone who makes ksnapshot not try and access remote locations on
> startup also gets hugs. it really wouldn't hurt to wait until I click save
> to
> autogenerate a filename.)
>
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