Canceling a "job"

Mark Greenwood fatgerman at ntlworld.com
Mon Oct 5 10:20:58 UTC 2009


On mine FTP, and indeed every other "job", has a 'stop' buton (a small square) and even a pause button - top right. Maybe you first need to push the little 'up arrow' thing (top right) to make the notification window bigger and then you'll see all the controls.

Mark

On Monday 05 Oct 2009 00:06:54 Paul Lemmons wrote:
> Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > Ok..I like what they have done with the little info area; where 
> > informative messages popup from,  keeping you in the know. Much better 
> > than before when the messages would pop up and then instantly 
> > disappear, never to be seen again.That said, I think they may have 
> > gone a little bit too far (or not far enough, depending on how you 
> > look at it).
> >
> > I was uploading a large file to an FTP site today using dolphin. It 
> > used to be that there was a dialog box that appeared showing progress 
> > and, more relevent to this discussion, a cancel button. When I dragged 
> > my large file from my computer pane to the FTP pane it dutifully added 
> > an entry to the info area letting me know I had 5 more hours to wait 
> > for it to finish uploading and even showed me a progress bar. Cool so 
> > far, except that I had dragged the wrong file over. Try as I might, I 
> > could not find any way to tell it to stop, short of logging off and 
> > back on.
> >
> > I am thinking that a little red X on that info/progress-meter would go 
> > a long way towards making me happier than I already am with Karmic.
> Added bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442654
> 




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