Re: [Gtkpod-questions] Sync-after-10-tracks feature

[phantomjinx <p.g...@ph...>]

On 07/02/11 09:41, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 10:19 AM, P.G. Richardson wrote:
>    
>>      
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am adding again some songs to my iPod touch 1 gen, and the
>>> sync-after-10-tracks feature is working, although it seems only
>>> when "adding folder" on the iPod, and not when copying tracks
>>> already in a local repository - no problem for me, as I prefer to
>>> add the folders anyway.
>>>
>>> Suggestion: would it be possible to have, an overall progress
>>> indicator, because at the moment, the progress indicator only shows
>>> the progress of the 10 tracks, and there is no indication on the
>>> progress in regards to all tracks to be transferred.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rainer
>>>
>>>        
>> Have committed an update to this over the weekend which should take
>> on all usercases for adding files and folders but haven't tested them
>> all so may have missed a couple.
>>      
> Thanks - I'll download it, but at the moment I seem to have problems wit
> SourceForge.
>
> By the way - is the deb now including m4a support?
>
>    
yes.
>> The point of the progress indicator is for saving of tracks not the
>> overall progress of a transfer. Messages are displayed indicating
>> tracks being copied but they will be wiped out by the progress
>> reporting of the save.
>>      
> OK - understood. But in the case of the save-10-and-update, the progress
> within the batch of 10 of the saving is rather unimportant then the
> overall progress of all files to be copied - the update is only an
> intermittent point, which is very useful, but not that interesting for
> the normal user.
> So would it be possible, to have a text which effectively says
> "Batch x out of y - xx% - PROGRESSBAR"? So the progress bar could
> effectively stay as it is, as the text would indicate the opverall progress?
>
>    

Not quite as simple as that since the save has no idea about 'batches' 
so will have to think on it further.

PGR