308901 - close download manager if you [clean up] the last item

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050916
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005091614

If you have one item in DM and press [clean up] you end up with an empty DM and
it requires an extra click to close it.
I'd prefer it to automatically close if the last item is cleared.

preferably, show the list is cleared and close the window after a second or so.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

I would vote against this. It saves a click, but it's totally unexpected for the
user.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 355819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Andrew]

I would definitely prefer the downloads window to close when it's emptied (either by removing individually or the cleanup button), even as an option.

Comment 4

[Fabiano Castro Pereira]

I vote for this. Maybe there can be an extra button labeled "Clean and close". This will solve our need, and also be user friendly, as Jo Hermans said above.

Comment 5

[Chris Blore]

I can't see this being added really. It seems to be to be completely unexpected by the user and adding an about:config pref for this would seem to be to be overkill. 

In my opinion, this should WONTFIXED

Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I can't see this being added really. It seems to be to be completely unexpected
> by the user and adding an about:config pref for this would seem to be to be
> overkill. 
> 
> In my opinion, this should WONTFIXED
> 
No, I wouldn't like to see this optinal either.
The fact that you're not used to it or wouldn't expect it doesn't mean it's wrong idea though.
As long as there's a certain delay it should be fairly obvious to the user what is happening.
It's a matter of getting used to.

Comment 7

[Fabiano Castro Pereira]

Another suggestions is to add a checkbox in the download options just bellow the checkbox labeled "Close it when all downloads are finished". This new checkbox would be labeled "Close it when the list is cleaned". 

I think this would solve this issue in a good manner, making everyone happy :)

Comment 8

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Sorry, but I think this breaks user expectations too much.