Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, David [ISO-8859-1] Sede�ern�ez wrote:

> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:13:26 +0100
> From: "David [ISO-8859-1] Sede�ern�ez" <david alderia com>
> To: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> Cc: GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10
>
> El lun, 01-11-2004 a las 10:39 +0000, Bastien Nocera escribió:
> > Hello David,
> [..]
> >
> > I can see plenty of problems/typos just in the screenshots:
> > - The "New" button in the toolbar should probably be "Add"
> > - "Stop" looks destructive, if it supports resuming, shouldn't this be
> > "Pause"?
>
> Yes, this could be changed.
>
> > - in the prefs, "Number of retries" is the number of trials retrying
> > what?
>
> Well, whatever you are retrying :) probably we have to change to
> something more descriptive.
>
> > - download speed should be in "kB/sec", not in just "kB"
> Changed in cvs.
>
> > - "No create directories" should probably be "Don't create
> directories".

According to the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines Labels should be
positive so in this case it would be something like "Create Directories"
and preset to True/False as appropriate.

"Recursivity" doesn't look right, cannot quite decide how it should be
fixed though.

> Thanks for the suggestions. If some options are obscure, please tell me
> a better way of describe it.

Might be an idea to shorten "File Type" and "File Name" to simply 'Type'
and 'Name'.

It seems to me like gwget could be difficult to use if you want to use it
for many different types of downloads at the same time but with quite
different options.  (For a web page a user would probably want some
recursion but not for a direct link to an MP3.  Going to the preferences
dialog to change those options every time could be cumbersome.)  Hopefully
it will be clearer when I have had a chance to compile and try it out for
myself.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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