Package: nautilus-wipe
Version: 0.2.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ban@???, tails-ux@???
Hi,
1. ext2 filesystem on a USB flash drive, with 2GB free space
2. right click in Nautilus -> Wipe available disk space
3. go through the dialog, not changing the default options
4. the progress bar stays at 0% for a long while, then moves to 50%,
then to 100%
=> users report that they are confused: it's unclear for them whether
the wipe operation is really happening, or the entire process
is stuck.
Potential solutions I can think of:
a) make the progress bar more fine-grained, if not too much work;
b) or, display additional information about what step in the process
is being performed (e.g. "Pass 1/2", or whatever better wording UX
folks will find), so that at least the user gets a hint that the
progress bar is not supposed to be more fine-grained than it is;
see e.g. "6.17.3. Indeterminate-progress indicator" in the
GNOME HIG;
c) worst case, use the thing that goes back'n'forth inside a widget
that looks like a progress bar: this should make the "UI is frozen,
is anything happening at all?" problem more or less go away.
Cheers!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nautilus-wipe depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-7
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3
ii libgsecuredelete0 0.2.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.12.2-1+b1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.12.2-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
nautilus-wipe recommends no packages.
nautilus-wipe suggests no packages.
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