Closed Bug 292310 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Download manager is intrusive (ie works as designed but still a usability problem)

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 235286

People

(Reporter: noh.way.jose, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 The download manager is intrusive, obscuring a significant proportion of the screen. The options to turn it off or have it disappear when finished are inadequate to meet users' needs to see the download AND continue browsing Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download a file 2. 3. Actual Results: The Download window sits in front of the browser client window. If I change focus to the browser window, the download window disappears behind in the z-order. To review the state of downloads, it is then neccessary to find the download window (alt-tab, task bar, ...) and give it focus. This is too disruptive to the primary task of browsing. Expected Results: I can think of at least two possible solutions that would be preferable but no doubt there are more. 1/ Allow the download window to be docked into the status bar (like the download progress indicator for e-mail accounts in Kontact PIM on Linux) - probably with the _option_ to only show files that are still downloading (ie clear completed files from the stack). The cancel and open commands could be provided via icons and/or a context popup menu 2/ Provide the above in a sidebar * or both + current - option for which of the three could be offered in the settings panel * keep Ctrl-Y as the show/hide shortcut PS please can we have THREE additional categories to cover usability 1/ Usability: user cannot complete a critical task (severity 1) 2/ Usability: user can complete a criticaL task but only by circuitous means - a non-intuitive workaround (severity 2) 3/ Usability: user can complete a task but the interface could be improved to make it easier (severity 3) 4/ Usability 'nice-to-have' would be already covered by your 'Enhancement' category
I guess http://dmextension.mozdev.org/ will do what you want. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 235286 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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