Re: Download folder

[Raphael Slinckx <raphael slinckx net>]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 10:03 -0500, Adam Hooper wrote:
> > If epiphany opens nautilus in the background in the download folder (and
> > not more than once (ie. if an instance of nautilus is already on the
> > folder just make it blink)) i would be happy. If any of the conditions
> > above is not satisfied it will quickly become annoying.
> 
> Raphael, it'd be great it we used your cool "downloading" overlay in
> Nautilus that you wrote like a year ago.... Then we could remove the
> "Download Manager" completely and just open the Nautilus folder.

Well, the overlay thing was not quite popular amongst the nautilus
maintainers, so i fear this is not really an option.

What can be done is a nautilus extension that draws a progress indicator
over downloaded files as an emblem, for example a pie filling
progressively. This would only require shipping the extension as part of
epiphany, and allowing the core downloader in epiphany to forward events
through dbus (that is basically already done, but it needs more work)

I don't know enough of pixbuf/cairo, but maybe the emblem could be one
single file with some de-saturation effect, or simply multiple image
files pre-computed, 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, or more/less fine grained.

In the same range of idea, a context menu for the 'currently
downloading' files is a context menu item to stop/resume transfer, and
other things ?

Comments ?
Raf