Re: GSoC: Global File Transfer Queue

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Just a quick note: Don't forget Empathy File transfer that could be
added to that dialog too.

Xavier Claessens.

Le mardi 24 mars 2009 à 13:56 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen a écrit :
> Hi Tad,
> 
> Op maandag 23-03-2009 om 14:59 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Tad Fisher:
> 
> > Basically, the plan is to develop a desktop-agnostic specification for
> > the queuing of file transfers, much as Nautilus does now on its own.
> 
> Your idea is similar to the (unfortunately uncompleted) "Mathusalem"
> long running task manager project in 2006. See
> http://live.gnome.org/Mathusalem 
> 
> > and So the question is, is this a good fit for Gnome/FD.o, and would 
> > this be an ideal project for a Gnome beginner to propose? In addition,
> > does this project mesh well with the overall goals of the Gnome
> > project?
> 
> I, for one, would welcome such an application. But one more thing:
> 
> > HTTP / FTP downloads (supplanting browser-specific download managers)
> 
> This is not as easy as it sounds, because you need a shared cookie store
> between the browser and your code for cookie-authenticated downloads. As
> I understand it, getting this working in libsoup is a challenge in
> itself.
> 
> regards,
>