Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 19:51 -0400, Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
> 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.

So instead of writing a whole new bloody download manager, why don't we
just fix the problem... ?

There are some issues with (a), but they're not unsolvable.  The biggest
problem is that, due to network latency, it might be a long time after
the connection startup occurs before the browser knows the file type the
URL points to, and thus it will be a long time before the browser knows
to popup the download manager or the content window, and that can make
it seem like the computer isn't doing anything.  epiphany-list is the
best place to discuss this problem and potential fixes for it, not this
list.

> 
> 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.

That would be great.  It's fairly useless though if all applications
aren't using gnome-vfs.  The apps still need to make sure the download
manager has access to the same proxy, the same cookies, the same login
password, etc.

> 
> Regards,
> Ricardo Veguilla
> 
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