582594 - Move the Download Manager into a tab (about: page)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 697359

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Vallaster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2

Emphasizing on the new UI style with tabs in focus, it would be a pleasure that the download manager opens as a new tab (and not as a new window), maybe it could be manaaged to open the download manager tab as a app tab (not sure if that would some confuse the users, who are using app tabs)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The download manager will not use a tab but a notification like style. Alex, I'm sure you know the bug #.

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

And the Downloadhistory will be integrated into the Library (Bug 564900), what itself will be made available as a Tab (waiting on Bug 130078) like the new AOM later on.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Shawn, beside bug 564934 do we wanna move the download manager into a tab in the future?

Comment 4

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Shawn, beside bug 564934 do we wanna move the download manager into a tab in
> the future?
You should ask the user experience team ;)

Comment 5

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

(In reply to comment #3)
Yes, please!

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Confirming based on UX feedback and moving into the appropriate component.

Comment 8

[Jake]

just an opption,anyone who doesn't like open-in-tab can still open it in window, open-in-tab can use the tab icon to show donwload progress, I don't suppose you guys will never find a way to show donwload progress since removed the status-bar? Chrome even open a large bar for it, users have the needs!

Comment 9

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

(In reply to comment #8)
> just an opption,anyone who doesn't like open-in-tab can still open it in
> window, open-in-tab can use the tab icon to show donwload progress, I don't
> suppose you guys will never find a way to show donwload progress since removed
> the status-bar? Chrome even open a large bar for it, users have the needs!

The plan is to make it part of the panel, but it didn't make it in time for 4.0.

See:
http://limi.net/media/sketchdownloadsround.png

And for full background:
http://limi.net/articles/improving-firefox-downloads