Re: [Epiphany] Re: Download Manager

[Peter Harvey <pah06 uow edu au>]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:10, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Manuel Clos writes: 
> 
> > 
> > Ummh... a download manager in your desktop background ;) 
> > 
> > Seriously, a notification area applet that shows when you are downloading 
> > something and that informs you when it is done, will be great. 
> > 
> 
> I actually very much agree with this statement. What is needed imo is a ui 
> with two approaches. 
> 
> 1. Transient data transfer information.
> 2. Semi-static access to recently downloaded files or files that are 
> currently being downloaded. 
> 
> 1 can be easily be addressed with a notification area icon and associated 
> window, which is what i believe is basically being addressed here. 
> 
> 2 requires a virtual nautilus folder that lists recently downloaded files as 
> well as shows the status of files being downloaded. 
> 
> dave 
> 

I don't see the need for Nautilus to handle point 2. The current
Epiphany download manager lists files that I am currently downloading,
and files that have been downloaded. Why not add a "Find" or "Open
Folder" to such a download manager, which opens Nautilus on the folder
that contains the file which was downloaded?

Using Nautilus would also have disadvantages like being unable to see
meta information (like where did the file come from?). And then I'd be
concerned that using Nautilus just to show me the list of most recently
downloaded files would be overkill - do I really want to be able to
manage the files? Change their icons? Rename them? Or do I just want to
find them?

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Peter Harvey.
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