Re: [Flamerobin-devel] BLOB operations

[Milan B. <mil...@gm...>]

On Jan 15, 2008 9:56 AM, Jiri Cincura <di...@ci...> wrote:
> What about configurable behavior of Copy action?

I'm not sure. Not all blobs are the same :)

I placed a poll about it on the website, and so far the 'ask user'
option leads. I read that as users might be needing one setting for
some blobs and other setting for other blobs (otherwise they would
pick one of the settings in the poll - that they would set in
preferences if it existed)

I also voted for 'ask the user'. The reason is simple: I expect all my
BLOBs to fit into 50kB and I set that as my preference. So when I
'Copy' and BLOB fits my 'usual BLOB' size I won't get any dialog and
all works fine. If I meet some unexpected BLOB of 50+ kB I'd get a
warning dialog asking me what to do - exactly what I need at that
moment. We can even make such dialog call Blob::Info and read in the
actual size, so user would get something like:

This BLOB is 320kB which is more than your 50kB limit? What do you want to do?

[Fetch 320kB and copy] [Just copy initial 50kB] [Cancel]

Well, wording can be improved, but you get the idea.

> And in context menu have both for some cases...
> And maybe add option "Load and save to file" when user tries to copy
> content (he can realize that there is a huge blob and he not wants to
> try to chock up it into memory).

I think that separate BlobDialog would be used for that, otherwise
we're duplicating functionality. But maybe that is the right way to do
it, I don't know.


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Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org