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One feature that I really like in Gnome 2.22 is the new file operation dialog used when moving or copying files in Nautilus.

If you select multiple files at once to copy you just get a single progress bar showing the progress as a whole of all the files.
However if you start a copy/move and then start subsequent copy/moves instead of opening their own dialogs they are just added to the already open progress dialog as shown here:

This gives much more information plus it really stops screen clutter by keeping all the information in one place.

The only slight niggle I have is that as the amount copied is updated twice per second it makes the whole line of text jump left and right as the numbers change width. It would be much nicer if the amount copied had it’s own label so it didn’t affect the rest of the text.