On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 01:18 +0100, Norman Jonas wrote: > I absolutely agree. This would make it possible for several apps to > share a single app for this particular task ( especially important due > to the fact that a download manager often will still be required when > the browser has been closed already ). Furthermore there are other apps > which could utilize a download manager ( e.g. managing a big file > download from nautilus when accessing an ftp site, drag drop a file uri > from a text file - more cases I don't think of yet ). >
The same old problems with delegating downloads is that mozilla knows about the history of a download request, such as cookies, http auth, referrers, php sessions and whatnot. If you simply pass the url to a third party program, it may or may not work, and that's unacceptable in most cases. There is such a manager called gwget which IIRC integrates in epiphany but i don't think it handles the above mentioned problems. What i once had working (and still must be working, just a little outdated due to dbus api changes), is a download manager that just exposes a dbus interface, and any downloader view can be used to show the download progress. That combined with more sources of long operations, and you have a kind of framework to display long tasks running in the background, like ripping CD's, fetching mails, or file transfers. This project needs love, and unfortunately i can't fully concentrate on it, and it requires a lot of PR to get accepted in the various affected modules (nautilus, sound juicer, evolution, ephy, etc). A working prototype is important in such cases.. > > > > > 1. If someone sends me an email with a link to a file, clicking that > > link in Evolution opens up a blank Epiphany window, and Epiphany then > > offers to download the file. Separating the download manager would > > avoid the unnecessary step of opening an Epiphany window, which I just > > close. Perhaps it would reduce the time for the download to start, > > too, if the download manager did not have to wait for Epiphany to > > load. The fact that ephy opens a window for a new download is a bug i think, it should close itself if it starts downloading, i'm not sure if this is just something that should be fixed, or something upstream.. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
