Re: download manager could use improvement,

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Matthew,

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> >  Well, you could ask the question if it should?
>
> Why shouldn't it? Nobody asked for the incomplete download to be 
> rendered useless.

But you end up in a situation where sometimes incompleted downloads are 
resumed, no matter how much time that has passed between the aborted 
download and the resumption, and on the other hand the cases where 
resuming the download fails because of expired cookies, moved URLs, you 
name it.

> Maybe it could take the same approach as for the logout/shutdown 
> itself: "If you do nothing, the download will be stopped in nn 
> seconds."

I think that could work, yes.

regards,

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