181167 - Download Manager

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

interestingly, this has been an oft-requested feature, but i've not seen it show
up as an RFE in Bugzilla, yet. there's a sidebar version at bug 174906.

what would be nice would be a standalone window Download Manager, if one were to
come into being.

i never had much luck with the OS X Download Manager in Mozilla, so maybe
Chimera can outdo it.

Comment 1

[Nate Cook]

I really second this feature request... A nice UI for the download manager might
be something based on the Finder "Get Info" window -- show the filename and
progress bar in the "small" view, and the source URL, destination URL, and all
the time and KB/sec statistics in the larger, twirled down view.

Slightly off topic, but an issue with the current download window (should a
manager not be implemented) is the Leave Open/Close When Done button. I feel the
wording is pretty ambiguous, as buttons should say what they do when clicked,
not what they do unless they're clicked. Is there a way of showing both options,
so that the user can click between them and see which is highlighted?

Comment 2

[Nate Cook]

Ack -- my bad. Just noticed bug 172259. Disregard second half of previous post.

Comment 3

[Martin Ler]

I must hardly vote for some kind of download manager. There is few reasons why
to have somethink like this - to know what you downloaded, to know WHERE
(sometimes i can't find somethink :) and under which name. And, last but not
least, i hate current behaviour, that closing of download window cancel the
downloading.

Comment 4

[VGZ]

I would like to see a download manager added as a new panel in the sidebar.  It
would have all the information from the download window (download location on
disk, location of file on the net, and progress bar stacked on top of each
other.  It could show the full locations in tooltips so that the sidebar doesn't
have to be made wider) in a blocked off list similar to the style used by
Omniweb's download manager. So you can see when something is downloading it
could have an overall progress bar on the dock icon (read if five files are
downloading the overall progress of all 5 is shown in the dock icon the same way
that Toast and Photoshop do). This would let you use the download manager when
you needed it but it wouldn't pop-up in your face everytime you started a new
download, you would just see a progress bar on the dock icon and possibly (by a
preference or something) the number of downloads in progress in a similar
fashion to Mail.app's "number of unread messages" badge. I'll try and come up
with a mock-up image later if I have time.

What do you guys thinks?

Comment 5

[Stephane Moureau]

Duplicate of Bug 174906.

Comment 6

[S Woodside]

Nope. That bug was specifically for putting a download manager in the drawer.

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Taking to work on the patch from Calum.

Comment 8

[Stephane Moureau]

Comment 5 was an (unclear) answer to comment 4.

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Current WIP download manager patch

This patch was originally made by Calum Robinson, and has been hacked on by me.

Comment 10

[Calum Robinson]

Making myself known (I created the patch Simon added). 

Comment 11

[Joachim Fornallaz]

Attachment: Slightly redesigned Progress Views for Download Manager

These are redesigned versions of all 4 progress views. The 2 main goals of the
redesign were to have a larger NSTextView control for file name display and a
simpler appearance, inspired by the File Copy window used in the OS X Finder.

Comment 12

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I think the compact view needs to show the progress bar.
I know the name gets truncated; I did add a tooltip to work around that to some
extent.

This bug is fixed. Please file new bugs for further tweaking.

Comment 13

[Chris Petersen]

Verified in the 2002-12-30-04 NB under 10.2.3.