Add speed info on file transfer dialog

Hi I wonder if a quite usefull feature can be enable, or put as option, in order to get the file speed transfer when we copy-paste any file. Just like in windows since win95... Like above the bar graph, a small line with like: 86mbp/s transfer speed.

Thanks in advance

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I dont have tinme to work on it myself, though a MR would be welcome !

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Hi @alexxcons , @johnnyda ,

Maybe I misundertanding the feature request, But I think the feature already exists.

Thunar displays the speed info but only 10 seconds into the copy/move operation.

The 10 seconds rule is there so that the displayed info (speed, time) is more reliable.

The feature was introduced originally in version 1.5.0 with this commit : f099302d

I did a test with version 4.16.8 and I can see speed info displayed. I attached the screen recording for the test

speed-info

Hah, these are great news, thanks for pointing out @m-amazirh ! I did not copy bigger stuff for a while, so I simply did not notice/recall :D

Possible we could reduce the delay to 5 seconds, or even 3 seconds, to make the feature more prominent. What do you think ?

Hi So yeah, i did find the feature present but indeed the delay is too high. Over a 20g file i can see the trsf show up. A 3s or 2 seconds can be a nice bet. With all thoses nvme and 10g network.. this have an impact.

Thanks again

Hi,

I knew that Thunar showed the remaining time but I think I never noticed that it showed the transfer speed. I looked in the code first to see how to implement the feature but found out it already exists, that's why I was confused by the request at first

Shortening the delay is apparently a simple change. There is only one place where the delay is configured : https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/blob/master/thunar/thunar-transfer-job.c#L42

I think the initial size of the transfer window should also be changed because the transfer speed isn't visible immediately, the user has to resize the window to see it (at least in my tests).

I'll try to prepare a merge request over the weekend for this

I think the initial size of the transfer window should also be changed because the transfer speed isn't visible immediately, the user has to resize the window to see it (at least in my tests).

Yea, I as well noticed that, a MR fixing that (and a reduced delay) would be great !

Wow, that can be great. And on the size, perhaps having the speed on a second line could do too. Thanks in advance, appreciated

mentioned in merge request !301 (merged)

Hi,

Here is the MR to shorten the delay : !301 (merged)

After testing the latest version of Thunar from git (my previous test was done using version 4.16) I found out that the transfer window was improved by this ticket in version 4.17 : #365 (comment 21510)

So there is no need to change the window's size or to put the speed information on another line.

Here is a screen recording demonstrating the new shorten delay (using the latest version of Thunar) : shortened-delay

Oh wow.. wonderfull then. Will check for sure.
thanks

mentioned in commit c40006de

merged .. thanks for the fix @m-amazirh !

To be released in thunar 4.17.10

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