418467 - Animate the Dock icon to show the global download progress while browsing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 548763

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; fr; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020511 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; fr; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020511 Firefox/3.0b3

When you start downloads and you browse, you can't see at the same time the download progress. You only know when downloads are finished (by growl). You don't know too how many downloads are always donwloading.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download files
2.Focus on a browser window (that hide the DM because of Desktop occupency)
3.
Actual Results:  
No way to see the donwload progress and number of remaining downloads while browsing

Expected Results:  
A way to see the donwload progress and number of remaining downloads while browsing. For Mac, a dynamic Dock icon seems to be a good solution.

Not sure if this happen in other platforms.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

Attachment: AdiumX and Adobe Dynamic Dock Icon + Mokups of Fx possible resolution

Comment 2

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

The is link with bug 402278, so maybe it has to be affected to OS integration component. Not sure.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

Attachment: Download progress badge in Chrome 7

Chromium 7 is now doing this ;-)

Comment 4

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Please don't add random issues to the papercut metabugs, that's not why they exist. The paper cut set of bugs is supposed to be a manageable, prioritized list, not a way to get your pet peeve bug fixed.

Comment 5

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

Sorry Limi, did I missunderstood papercuts and polish ? or is that only an enhencement ? :-S