Re: Re : Re: Downloader UI Rationales

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

> Yeah, sorry if I mixed design drawbacks with implementation drawbacks. 
> I'm bundling them into one big, fat mess :).

Heh dont worry. I often do it too even if I'm the one supposed to know
how the final thing was planned to work ;)

> > I think we should show a confirmation dialog when the mime type isnt handlable. That would make the timer thing unnecessary too probably, because you would ever have something showed (dialog or app) and so the feedback could be ok.
> 
> I think "download complete" is an important message. Maybe a little 
> message could pop out of the download manager's tray icon, then 
> disappear after a couple of seconds? (Similar to MSN Messenger's 
> obnoxious way of grabbing your attention....)

Yeah that's sort of planned too. Not sure if currently possible in gtk,
the tray has api for it but it's not implemented.

Marco