230015 - Additional features for the new download manager (new toolbar buttons to open/show and remove from list in one action)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, enhancement)

Description

[Martin Girschick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031231 Camino/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031231 Camino/0.7+

The new download manager (see bug #223583) is quite nice, but there are few
things which could be improved. This bug report is about the context menu, how
to open new items and additional toolbar options.

Usually after downloading an item you only use it once either by opening it or
showing it in the finder. So  I recommend two additional toolbar buttons (free
to use for everyone :-):

- Show in Finder and remove from list
- Open and remove from list

I'm not sure whether the standard UI of cocoa allows this but a toogle-button
would be great, which directly toogles automatic opening of items. The default
not to open items is good but sometimes when downloading several items which
should be opening immediatly it would be nice to have a fast way to toogle that
options either using an entry in the context menu or a toolbar item.

When a download is doubleclicked it should be opened.

Drag and drop of items to open them with other applications would be a nice feature.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
download a few files

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

sounds ok, as long as these extra buttons are not part of the default set.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Dance]

> When a download is double-clicked it should be opened.

Definitely would like to see this; in particular, double-clicking the icon
should open it. I'm voting for this bug on that merit.

Also, shouldn't this bug be split into multiple requests? This bug is ripe to
turn into discussion about any feature for the download manager, which should be
done on the forums, not in Bugzilla.

For instance, I'd like to also see a "delete" button, showing the Trash icon,
which would move the selected file the to Trash.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Dance]

[Sorry for the bugspam]

I found that bug 230320 covers my trash can RFE and a other things. That one is
assigned though, so no reason to worry about multiple RFEs in that bug. I'm just
worried about overlap and inability to mark a particular part of the bug resolved.

Comment 4

[Bruce Davidson]

Opening a downloaded file when its icon is double clicked is bug 257257. I've
just raised the drag and drop from download manager (which was mentioned as part
of bug 230320) as bug 276883.

That just leaves this bug requesting two new toolbar icons and the toggle switch.

Personally I think the toggle switch should be WONTFIX, and I'm not too fussed
about the two new buttons. (Don't know if we can implement that version of the
functionality if you option click on the existing buttons or similar).

As the current download manager has a context menu and I can't see any reference
to changes requested for it in this bug I'm updating the summary.

Comment 5

[Martin Girschick]

I agree with most of the comments made.

If the "doubleclick to open" will be implememented in 1.0, that would be ok and
the suggestion to use option-doubleclick to remove the entry after opening it
sounds good to me as well - I'm going to post that to the other bug (#257257). I
guess you can set this bug to WONTFIX then, the additional toolbar items
probably only confuse people.

Comment 6

[Bruce Davidson]

Following comment 5 marking this as WONTFIX - most of its constituent parts have
been moved to other, more specific, bugs. There seems to be reasonable agreement
that the extra toolbar buttons probably aren't necessary.