Re: Downloader UI Rationales

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > And that's all beside the problem of downloading files which are awfully 
> > named on the server (which probably happens on over 25% of all 
> > downloads).
>
> I'm a bit surprised about the 25%. I think most people click Ok Ok on
> the dialogs anyway, so this sort of file naming is a problem also with
> IE.

Yes, I for one just click "OK OK". But at least I see the filename 
somewhere. In Epiphany now, I can download a file without ever knowing 
what its filename is.

I downloaded R64838.EXE from a link on Dell's website, for example. 
Since I downloaded that particular file on Epiphany 1.0 (Debian), I 
could see the file's name so I knew what to look for when I opened a 
shell to unzip it. Had I used Epiphany CVS, I wouldn't have seen the 
filename (or even known its extension), so I'd have had to look through 
every entry in my home directory to find which entry hadn't been there 
before.

I'll do another silly brainstorm, maybe it'll give somebody else a 
*good* idea: How about dropping the *first* OK, and just popping up a 
file selection dialog when the mime type isn't handled? Or how about 
displaying a dialog with "Open", "Save", "Cancel" and having the 
filename written somewhere on it? ("The file R64838.EXE cannot be 
handled by Epiphany....")

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Adam Hooper
adamh densi com