Re: [gnome-network]GNetworkTransferManager

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Hi all,

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> That is, I was thinking we could have a GNetworkTransferManager class in
> libgnetwork (Transfer, because, as we said, we want to support both
> uploads and downloads), which manages the different transfers, and which
> can be used by other apps (our transfer manager UI, epiphany/galeon,
> MIME actions components, etc).

My idea of other apps using the transfer manager was to build a simple 
bonobo client to the daemon, so that the client takes care of connecting 
and interacting with the daemon. Then any app that wants to 
download/upload something is presented with some methods. This is what I 
have in downman right now:

module GNOME {

    interface DownloadManager : Bonobo::Unknown {

        void newDownload (string url);
    };
};

Of course, this bonobo client also shows a GUI so that the user can 
control the properties of the download/upload. Then the interface also 
needs _events_ so that the program requesting the download/upload is 
notified when it is finished.

About epiphany, I talked with the developers a while ago and got to the 
conclusion of implementing a plugin for epiphany that will call the 
bonobo client. This is because there is already a simple download 
manager built into epiphany. Of course, it will be great if epiphany 
uses the gnome-network download manager if it is installed.

> Of course, the GNetworkTransferManager is just an idea, but the whole
> thing is to have the basic functionality in the library, so that it can
> be reused.
>
> What do you think?

It is just as easy as implementing the bonobo thing, since (using 
downman as the base to gnome-network donwload manager) there is already 
the daemon and the utility lib for clients (connect, add downloads, 
...), and the GUI is just the one Gnome Download Manager presents you 
when you hit the "New download" option.

I have already implemented the Servers feature in downman, so you can 
now limit how many connections you want to a specific server. I will now 
get on internacionalization support and moving to gnome-vfs.

But it seems that Rodney Dawes is going to implement it in 
gnome-network, so at this point it seems that downman is not considered 
for going into gnome-network. I have requested before in the list 
comments about downman, but got no response.

Has Rodney looked at downman? What are the problems with it?

Has it been considered for inclusion?


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Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net
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