Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla hpcf upr edu>]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> David Sede�ern�ez <david alderia com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to propose gwget for Gnome 2.10 inclusion.  
> >    
>
> I don't think a separate download manager is really useful for the GNOME
> desktop.  Users almost never run into URIs by themselves -- they are
> almost always encountered in some context, such as web-browsing or
> email.  Epiphany's download manager is quite good.  I don't see what a
> separate application in addition to that adds.
Two cases where epiphany's download manager falls short:

a) clicking a URI for a .tar.gz in evolution (or any other app) open the 
epiphany browser window unnecessarily just to use the download manager. 
This  b) Is not possible for a user to pause a download, log out, log in 
later and resume downloading the file.

I certainly like the idea of a download (transfer) manager at the 
gnome-vfs level, so that any download (or upload) initiated via 
gnome-vfs could be managed in the same transfer manager window.

Regards,
Ricardo Veguilla