Behaviour of system tray bandwidth indicator
Ed Greshko
ed.greshko at greshko.com
Mon Mar 17 22:23:30 UTC 2014
On 03/18/14 05:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 21:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 03/17/14 21:34, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>>>> I just dragged a 4GB file in Dolphin to my NFS Mounted NAS. A little circle popped into the systray area and clicking on it brings up a "Copying" box with information about how much has been copied and what the current transfer rate is. This goes along for a few minutes and then finally a popup comes from dolphin indicating the transfer is complete.
>>> That's what I'm talking about. If the circle widget has a name I don't
>>> know it. My point is that the transfer rate is showing (say)
>>> 1.6GiB/sec (i.e. gigabytes) which is ridiculous. And of course the
>>> transfer finishes immediately, which of course it would at that speed.
>>> It's really not very helpful.
>> OK. I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing a reasonable transfer rate and it doesn't show "completed" until it actually is and the popup from Dolphin shows up. Also have a 1000Mbps LAN.
> As I say, it doesn't show completed until it actually completes, but in
> the meantime the information it shows is meaningless. As a test, I
> copied the same file in both directions. Copying to the NAS behaves as I
> described. Copying from the NAS shows a believable transfer rate and
> estimated completion time. In both cases the real completion time was
> the same.
>
> I have screenshots of both transfers, and once I figure out how to
> upload then to fedorapeople.org I'll post them there.
>
OK... For some reason, I thought the progress bar on the systray notifications was displaying completed after a short time.
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