NetAccess::statInternal and showing job progress

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 20 July 2010, Chani wrote:
> On July 20, 2010 11:32:35 David Faure wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 July 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On July 20, 2010, you wrote:
> > > > On Friday 16 July 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > > is there any pressing reason to show the progress info for
> > > > > stat/exist checks on remote files? i'd like to commit this and
> > > > > backport if there is consensus.
> > > > 
> > > > I object. This is very useful for slow (or even hanging) connections.
> > > 
> > > for file transfers, i agree. but for stats and existence checking,
> > > what's the use there? other than for debugging, which i really don't
> > > think is a good excuse for showing such things to the user every
> > > single time, i can't see the benefit to sending job notifications
> > > about checking for file details.
> > > 
> > > stats and existence checking are almost never something the user is
> > > actively triggering (from their POV), and so the desktop starts
> > > sounding very "chatty" telling them about all kinds of internal
> > > details of things they haven't triggered (again, from their POV) and
> > > which they really don't care about.
> > 
> > Again, if it takes <1s, then yes, I agree that they don't need to care.
> > But if it takes 10 minutes because the server isn't responding, and
> > meanwhile (without any kind of progress info) they don't know if the
> > image got saved or not, then this would be a very severe bug, leading to
> > data loss, potentially (you think a file exists, and it does not).
> 
> erm, but this wasn't about save, it was about stat :)

... which is usually done just before saving, to warn in case you're about to 
overwrite an existing file.

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