Re: download manager could use improvement,

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi,

Le samedi 11 février 2006 à 12:32 +0100, Sander van Loon a écrit :
> 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?

No, epiphany uses the mozilla backend to download files, and this is not
going to change. (We have to, since downloads may depend on cookies and
http auth tokens present in the browser.)


> 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.
This depends on mozilla supporting that, yes.

> > 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.

This is fixed in latest cvs.

> > 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

Please file that in bugzilla.

> > 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

It depends on the mozilla backend supporting it,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101711 .

> > 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?

The new "Preferred Applications" control centre applet offers this now.

> > 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? 

No.

> Will it make it into epiphany-extensions someday?

Possible, but not certain.

Regards,
	Christian