Comments on: Epiphany-Nautilus integration

By: Philip Ganchev

Philip Ganchev — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:02:06 +0000

I think it would be more useful to have a central place for downloads and other tasks in progress, like gTask does. This shows more detailed information, and is more general.

It would also be good to represent the partly-downloaded files using a partly-filled icon (as someone suggested above), because it is more concrete and can be manipulated more directly.

By: Reinouts’ nerdy notes » Blog Archive »

Reinouts’ nerdy notes » Blog Archive » — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:45:46 +0000

[...] Another aspect is that we would like to seamlessly integrate downloading with Nautilus. Raphaël created a implementation of this, but this way of doing it wasn’t found to be satisfactory by the interested parties. [...]

By: Britt Selvitelle

Britt Selvitelle — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:51:20 +0000

Like someone else posted, I’ve always dreamed of the icon filling up as you download! Specifically, from bottom to top … maybe grains of sand falling down and filling up the icon type.

May take some gtk hacking, but it must be done!

By: Jerry Haltom

Jerry Haltom — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:40:29 +0000

Don’t pass the URL to Nautilus. Nautilus cannot connect back to the web site using the same session and cookie information. This would make downloads fail in weird ways if served in this manor.

I also think the download bar is pretty useless. I like the idea of having a seperate progress window, just like right now, but an indication on the icon. I *love* that idea.

By: Sam Kaufman

Sam Kaufman — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:04:58 +0000

This is an innovative idea, but I think it’s unnecessary and potentially confusing. I hate to bash this hack, but the information is very minimal and having it happen “inside” a folder is just odd. Besides, it doesn’t readily show which files are downloading or provide an obvious way to stop/pause them.

Of course… having a small progress bar (or some other way to represent a download) on the actual icon in Nautilus would be a fantastic improvement. Right now, the only real way for a user to tell that a file isn’t all there yet is the constant refreshing of the thumbnail (assuming that filetype gets a thumbnail).

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:18:41 +0000

Here are two Mockups I made some time ago, perhaps they can give you some ideas:
http://hagemaenner.de/stuff/ActiveIcons.png
http://hagemaenner.de/stuff/gTask/gTask.png

By: Steven Garrity

Steven Garrity — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:43:14 +0000

Interesting stuff. It strikes me (without having put much thought into it, admittedly), that might be a bit confusing since the download info is so minimal (down in the status-bar). It might appear that you’ve clicked for a download, a window opened, and “nothing is happening”.

By: Olivier Le Thanh

Olivier Le Thanh — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:37:06 +0000

Nice but it seem you forgot the “pause” and “stop” buttons, how do you plan to integrate these in you UI?

How about, we could delete a file to stop the download and have somes entries in the popup menu?

By: Yury Puzis

Yury Puzis — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:08:19 +0000

1. since desktop has no status bar to show download process, how about panel applet to do that?

2. how about integrating in the exact similar fashion *copying* from folder to folder? After all, download is nothing more then copying for a user, only from remote location, and longer.

3. while I am at it: why not replace the usual “copy” / “delete” progress window with an intergrated notification icon, epiphany style, what would include all information about all files being currently moved/copied/deleted/downloaded. and of course will dissapear when done.

By: Rafael Jannone

Rafael Jannone — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:42:33 +0000

what a cool hack!

is there any chance of getting firefox to support this as well?