Re: download manager could use improvement,

[Sander van Loon <svloon xs4all nl>]

I was hoping the developers could reply to my suggestions, but I haven't
received any reactions on this anymore. I know everyone is probably busy
with developing Epiphany 1.10, but aren't there any long term goals,
isn't there place for my suggestions on the to-do list?

After reading some of the comments on bug reports in Bugzilla having to
do with downloading functionality, Epiphany can't implement anything if
that feature isn't supported by Firefox. I don't understand, can anyone
explain?

I read in Mozilla's bugzilla that it's probably going to take a long
time before Firefox has functionality for resuming downloads and speed
limiting. Is there no way for Epiphany to implement this functionality
independently, or would that take a lot of work?



On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:48 +0100, Sander van Loon wrote:
> One of the things which I miss in Epiphany (and all other browsers which
> I've tried, Internet Explorer and Firefox) is a good download manager.
> 
> 1. The download manager doesn't support resuming an incomplete download
> after restarting my PC.
> 2. I also noticed that when I shut down my PC with a download still
> running, I don't get a warning that my file which is being downloaded
> will be lost if I shut down.
> 3. Long file names in the download manager don't get shortened, which
> makes a scroll bar appear so that I can't see the progress bar.
> Screenshot here: http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Evanlonen/epiphany_download.jpg
> 4. I'd like to have the possibility of limiting my download speed.
> Sometimes I'm downloading huge files which take a long time to download.
> The download will also consume all my downstream bandwith. I'm behind a
> router with two other PC's, if my brother wants to play a game online
> while I'm downloading with full speed for an hour or so, that's
> impossible for him because I'm using all the bandwith then. This is
> quite a serious problem for me and other people sharing internet
> connections. Maybe for other people as well, it could be useful to limit
> download speed so that you can still browse the web while downloading.
> Maybe you could put such a seek bar, like the one in Totem, in the
> download manager window as an easy way to control the percentage of
> download bandwith which is used. I've searched Bugzilla for this issue,
> and I've found this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117939
> That feature request is one and a half year old however, so I wonder if
> it still isn't possible?
> 
> I have some other requests as well. Please read:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327382 currently you have to
> enter "epiphany -n %s" in Preferred Applications to get links to open in
> new tabs instead of new windows. It seems to me like this is better
> default behavior. Maybe this could be changed in Epiphany so we don't
> have to use this obscure tweak with the command?
> 
> Last question, in my previous post to this mailing list -
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2005-November/msg00021.html
> - Reinout van Schouwen told me of this extension:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118618 Last comment on that
> Bugzilla entry is from 4 November last year, has there been any progress
> on that extension? Will it make it into epiphany-extensions someday?
> Currently I'm using smart bookmarks and the deskbar applet to accomplish
> quick searching, but those aren't ideal. This extension would make my
> life a lot easier, so I hope it will be included.
> 
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