183884 - Show download feedback on the dock icon

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Stephane Moureau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021205 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021205 Chimera/0.6+

Add a small red counter on the top right of the icon in the Dock to show how
many downloads are still running, à la Mail (new emails).
That red icon can perhaps be a "large" arrow pointing down to illustrate the
download concept, rather than just a circle like in Mail.

A small red dot (without number) could also be added on the small earth icon at
the right of the status bar but it will be probably too much if you are on a
secure site (locker).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[S Woodside]

The mail flag is important because new mail is often of interest for immediate
attention. I don't see how this is useful in the same way.

Comment 2

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

One bug per issue, please.

I agree to Simon.

Comment 3

[Stephane Moureau]

For users with a slow internet connection, just moving the mouse over the Dock
will show them that the downloads are not yet finished. Without that you must
bring Chimera to the front, perhaps open the DL manager, etc...
You get the idea.

Comment 4

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

If Chimera *had* a DL manager, surely I'd agree.

What's your take on this, Pinkerton?

Comment 5

[Stephane Moureau]

We will see Bug 174906

Comment 6

[S Woodside]

Why does the completion of a download require attention to merit this kind of
feedback?

Comment 7

[Brad Kemper]

I would prefer a progress meter in the icon, the way PhotoShop does it 
when you are saving a large file. This would make even more sense if the 
download window was not a window at all, but a "docklet" type of dock 
icon instead, with contextual menus replacing the commands that are 
currently icons at the top of the window.

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

We have another bug on dock icon feedback I think, but I can't find it.

Comment 9

[Joe M]

dupe of bug 71657?

Comment 10

[Jasper]

No that us for Mozilla.

Comment 11

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I'm not sure downloads are something we care to represent in the dock icon. If
Camino was made for downloading, ala p2p apps, then I can see it's use. But
downloading is typically a secondary thing and thus, not the primary function.
Only primary functions are typically shown in a dock icon. Or am I wrong?

Suggesting WONTFIX.

Comment 12

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

interesting idea, but would people ever make the connection? with mail it's
pretty obvious what the number means.

Comment 13

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

We have a perfectly good download manager (well, one that only allows two
downloads at a time, but...), and I don't see how sticking some tiny blob on the
Dock icon is going to be helpful at all.

Further, I second Samuel's analysis of primary/secondary fuctions in comment 11
and concur with his suggested resolution.

Comment 14

[Jasper]

I agree with mikes aswell as samuel's assesments. We primerily are a browser, if
we would show something in the dock you'd indeed assume it was related to
webpages. So I agree that we should WONTFIX this.

Comment 15

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

wontfix. we should add growl support if people really want this kind of
notification.