Re: download manager could use improvement,

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Sander,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, 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.

Keep in mind that Epiphany is primarily a web browser, and not a 
download manager. :) That said, the download functions Epiphany offers 
should work well of course.

> 1. The download manager doesn't support resuming an incomplete download
> after restarting my PC.

Well, you could ask the question if it should? What should be done if 
the download cannot be resumed for some reason? (We may need an UI for 
handling failed downloads, anyway...).

> 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.

Interesting. Epiphany should probably talk to the session manager and 
halt the logout+shutdown process until the user has indicated if he 
really wants to abort the download. Please file a bug.

> 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.

You mean you can't see the time left? :) Again please file a bug.

> 4. I'd like to have the possibility of limiting my download speed.

I really don't think that is a job for the browser to do - I suggest 
that look for some bandwidth throttling software that's made for this 
kind of thing.

> That feature request is one and a half year old however, so I wonder if
> it still isn't possible?

It would surprise me if Mozilla would have a download priority API right 
now, but I can't say for sure.

> 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?

Each time this suggestion is done (and it is done quite often) I have to 
ask to please have mercy on my mum ;) She uses Epiphany one webpage at a 
time, in a maximized window. I have tried to explain tabs to her, but 
she doesn't ever think of opening something in a new tab herself. Why 
would it be better default behaviour for the browser to open pages in 
tabs by default? My mum would have to understand this rather advanced 
way of handling webpages, and I'm not sure she could.

> 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?

I think that extension is just waiting for someone to finish it, then I 
see no reason for not including it in epiphany-extensions :-)

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen