Report sync progress in UI

[lasselasse]

I would really greatly appreciate having some kind of progress report while a sync is running on the client.

At the moment, the only option is to tail the logfile, but even that doesn't really help, because there is a lot of output and it is quite unclear (to me), how many files have been sync and what remains to be done.

If I understand csync correctly, then the number of files to sync is known atfer the reconciler has done ist works, right? Wouldn't it be possible to report the sync progress in the form of "syncing file 23 of 42" in the status window and when hovering over the systray icon?

[houqp]

I would also like to have this feature :)

[dragotin]

We're near ;-)

[laryllian]

Are we near?
Pls also see: #367 (The sync client's "sync folder info" always "resets")

[heaven988]

Is someone working on that?

[ALenfant]

I think this could be important. I'm uploading several GB and can't even see the progress on that without loading the web interface and checking the folder size

[johan27hack]

Hello, does anyone if this option will come soon ?

Greeting :)

[danimo]

Scheduled for 1.4.

[laryllian]

WOHOOOOO, nice! ;-D
Is there a schedule for 1.4?

Thank you so much.

[danimo]

@laryllian No. We first need to get 1.3 out of the door, You can check The milestones to see which issues we want to address for a particular release.

[jancborchardt]

Tested in the dev version, sweet work already Monsieur @dragotin ;)

Just an issue: When selected, on specific systems (here default Ubuntu) the text isn’t readable:

I’d say the extra box around the filename and progress bar is not needed anyway, and cutting it will probably solve the issue?

[dragotin]

@jancborchardt: How is that? Note two changes: No frame any more and a textual representation of the size.

[jancborchardt]

@dragotin yes, better! Just one thing, there should be better wording for the action: »Uploading « instead of »File Upload «.

Regarding the bar in general, it’s a tad confusing or too detailed that it’s for individual files at the moment. What do you have in mind for an overall sync progress? I think the bar and textual representation should be overall sync progress, and the text below »Uploading « should be the detail. Of course with error if stuck at a specific file, and maybe with a small (x %) progress indicator in parentheses after the file name. But not with a whole loading bar on its own.

[dragotin]

Here we go:

[laryllian]

Very nice. If'd you ask me, the last line should be:

Currently uploading "sync_head.log" (24 MB of 43 MB)

Q: What happens with very long filenames? "sync_h...d.log" or "sync_he..."

[jancborchardt]

@dragotin nice! And yes, agree with @laryllian’s remark. The last line should be

• Currently uploading sync_head.log (24 MB of 43 MB)

All left-aligned.

@laryllian as far as I know only the last part of the file name is shown, so it’s better to distinguish.

[dragotin]

done as requested. See nightly builds :)

[jancborchardt]

YEEEEAH!

[dragotin]

[laryllian]

Heyho, pls tell me where the nightlies are, I have just built the latest github snapshot and only got a version with transfer details but without file names. But it's already very cool, thx.

Apart from that, one thing really surprised me:
When clicking on the cloud icon, it takes me to the settings page, which it is called "General". I am sure, the normal user is not keen to frequently change the proxy settings ;-) Instead, the landing page should be the now called Account page, but renamed to "Overview", right? You probably thought of that yourself already...

[danimo]

@laryllian No, it shouldn't. Rather we will gradually move to also feedback in the context menu. It's a settings page, so if you need to go there for every day syncing needs (i.e. more often than you need to change anything else there), our semantics are wrong. Hence the move to improve feedback through the context menu.

Another problem with making the account page the default: What happens once we add support multiple accounts? Which one should be default then?

[laryllian]

@danimo General feedback like the amount of space used is fine for the context menu, but my primary use case for clicking the cloud is to see, what the sync folders are currently doing in detail (although I would prefer the click to open my main oc folder. =) Wanting to see the details or getting to the options page is something for IT people, not for normal users, they just want to use it.)

Concerning accounts, well yes, multiple accounts with multiple folders each might be challenging to display, but showing the most recently used one or setting a default does seem like a good idea to me. Most users will have one cloud with few folders, so showing the overview of the folders of that one account in detail (like in v1.3) sounds sensible to me.

[laryllian]

[danimo]

So I go owncloud icon -> settings -> settings to get to the settings? What are the first three items then? not-settings?

[laryllian]

Nope, either (leftclick cloud) [oc window opens on default account overview] -> then chose the settings entry OR (rightclick cloud) [context menu opens] -> chose menu item "settings" [oc window opens on settings entry]. It's just a suggestion. ;) But as I wrote, my favourite behaviour on cloud leftclick would be to open the local folder.