Improve UI of file operations dialog

From the two design options, I think the buttons without labels is likely the better option, as the icons are pretty standard and will have tooltips and it will leave more room for the file name to appear, especially long ones.

Thank you for reporting !

Option 1 please.

The icons afaik differ depending on the used icon theme. With your theme, Pause / Resume are pretty standard, but Cancel is not (I would need that tooltip myself) I dont think we should rely on tooltips for such basics.

How about stacking the buttons vertically to get more space for long file names ?

A patch would be welcome !

We could use adwaita symbolic icons so they are always the same irrespective of theme, like what we use in the thunar toolbar.

I dont think we stick to a specific theme for the toolbar icons. What would happen if adwaita icon set is not installed ?

Afaik we just use symbolic-icons there, which by coincidence look almost the same for different icon sets.

As well thunar is not nautilus .. besides the toolbar I guess we use text + icon everywhere. I would rather keep the styling consistent.

Yes my mistake, it is symbolic icons and not adwaita symbolic icons. Adwaita's symbolic icon set is a requirement for gtk3, so it will always be there.

We use icons only in the panel and panel profiles dialog.

I'm also interested about the stacking version. Could you do a mockup for this @philipzae ? But for now yes I think your option 1 is better than what have done :-)

Stacking version would take up way to much space.

Aehm .. to me looks like the same space than before is used :) .. at least IMO it is not "way to much" :)

Now that you stacked the buttons, I guess it would look much better to keep the progress bar short, and use the vertical space only for the buttons. (Not sure if they should be expanded, or aligned to the top or bottom) .. and of course the should have the same horizontal size.

For comparison.

Caja

Nemo

Dolphin

ّI also think from the two design options, buttons without labels is the better option.

For comparison.

Ok, I would be fine with play/pause/stop icons if nobody else insists. I guess rectangle/double dash/square are widely used as symbolic icons for that. But please dont use "cancel/abort", which is not consistent.

Geh, that arrow of caja. Does it do a "reload" ? :P

Since you are pushing that issue so much, I hope you are planning to provide a MR ?