[Fwd: Re: [Epiphany] Downloader ui changes]

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

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• From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>
• To: Jason Lotito <jason devnetwork net>
• Subject: Re: [Epiphany] Downloader ui changes
• Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:48:18 -0400

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:01, Jason Lotito wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:34, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > 13 Copy source uri to clipboard (to download it with another downloader
> > for example)
> ..snip..
> > While in a perfect world 13 would not be necessary, with slow connection
> > it can be essential.
> 
> Maybe I can expand on this.  Something that irks me about ALL Browser
> downloads is the dependency on the GUI.  For example, let's say I start
> a big downloads in Epiphany.  After 100Megs of download, I need to
> restart X for whatever reason.  If I do this, I have to restart the
> download.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a way to Background this download.  That
> way, I can restart X, or even the browser, without having to restart the
> download.  I wouldn't think it's really that important, except this
> happens a lot.
> 
> Most of the time, I will start a download, and then stop it, copy the
> URL, go to a new terminal, and use wget to grab the file.  If the
> browser could do all that for me in some manner, this would be nice.
> 
> With slow connections, this would be great.
> 
> This is just a thought though.  However, it's implementation would be
> wonderful.

Yeah that would be the best. Unfortunately it's not easy to implement
but that's where we should target ...

Marco

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