Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:54 +0100, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> I'm not convinced these are features that warrant inclusion in stock
> GNOME (not many users casually perform mass downloads, unless you count
> pr0n in, then I suspect numbers go up quite a bit ;), but having good,
> HIGgish and usable download manager would be very valuable. So far,
> there was none, now gwget fills in HIGgish niche, but it still lacks in
> terms of features, particularly multipart is non-existant. This means on
> Unixish platforms there is still no match for generally available Win32
> applications, of which you have at least 3-4 viable options. For me,
> it's serious lack, and I'd really love to see gwget filling the void.
> Still, I don't think it'd be all that great idea to include it in GNOME,
> as it's rather specialised app and goes against principle of including
> software useful for general public. For that, we should indeed improve
> interaction of builtin GNOME mechanisms.

Sort of a me-too post. I agree that a nice download manager would be a
good thing, but I don't think that gwget is it. I played with it last
night, and it works and has a few rough edges but what really struck me
was that the design seemed to be motivated by the idea of "wrapping wget
in a GUI" rather than "making a download manager". i.e. the features are
determined more by "what does wget have ?" than "what does a GUI
download manager need ?".

 - Callum