Re: Stop Epiphany from opening File Manager

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

> I think a clean solution
> for this issue is related to the notification bubble. Instead of opening
> the file browser, a notification bubble with two buttons on it would be
> shown:
> 
>   +------------------------------+
>   | Download of ‘foo.pdf’ to     |
>   | ‘/path/to/file’ is complete. |
>   |                              |
>   |    [Open Folder] [Open File] |
>   +------------------------\  /--+
>                             \/
> 
> This approach would stop Epiphany from opening new windows automatically
> (this is annoying... we have a popup blocker as well for good reason),
> while the user is still assisted in locating or opening the just
> downloaded file.

Good idea. I recently reviewed Epiphany's download behaviour [1] and
came up with a very similar solution.

Allan

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/FeatureDesign/DownloadBehaviour


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