701798 - No indication that Save as PDF is complete

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 701797

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

After I click Save as PDF I see a notification that the PDF is downloading. I do not receive any notification or other link that allows me to easily view the PDF. Note that I have confirmed that the PDF has successfully been created by browsing to my downloads folder using Astro.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a page in nightly.
2. Click Save as PDF.
3. Confirm manually that the PDF has completed. No notification status has been shown.

Actual results:
No notification is shown when the PDF creation completes.

Expected results:
A notification should alert me that the PDF has been created and allow me to click on it to view the PDF.

Environment
HTC Desire
Android 2.2

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Default Android behaviour is to utilize the drop/pull down notification tray;  toast alerts have such short duration and never receive focus for action. I see the status, "Download Complete" under the item of which I downloaded under Android 2.3.4 (Galaxy SII).

Comment 2

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> Default Android behaviour is to utilize the drop/pull down notification
> tray;  toast alerts have such short duration and never receive focus for
> action. I see the status, "Download Complete" under the item of which I
> downloaded under Android 2.3.4 (Galaxy SII).

my HTC Desire HD (running 2.3.3) says under Notifications:

Downloads
Downloading: ...

but it never says "complete" or something similar. Also it takes me to Fennec when I click on this notification instead of opening the pdf. This behaviour is okay as long the pdf is downloading, but not when it finished.

Comment 3

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

What, generally, are we doing about a download manager? There was talk of making use of the central downloads list. If we are, the "complete" message should take you there.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Do we have "Download complete" for _any_ downloads? The system notification shows the PDF. Tempted to close this bug, or make a new bug for _all_ downloads.

Comment 5

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I don't see any notification, system or otherwise, that the PDF download has completed. Put another way, after I click Save as PDF I don't know where to go to actually view the PDF.

Comment 6

[:Margaret Leibovic]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #4)
> Do we have "Download complete" for _any_ downloads? The system notification
> shows the PDF. Tempted to close this bug, or make a new bug for _all_
> downloads.

When downloading a normal PDF from the web, you get a download completed notification, and the download opens on completion, so I think this issue is specific to save as PDF.

Comment 7

[:Margaret Leibovic]

I'm duping this to bug 701797, since the solution there (fixing download observer notifications) should solve this problem as well.

Comment 8

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

(In reply to Margaret Leibovic [:margaret] from comment #6)
> (In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #4)
> > Do we have "Download complete" for _any_ downloads? The system notification
> > shows the PDF. Tempted to close this bug, or make a new bug for _all_
> > downloads.
> 
> When downloading a normal PDF from the web, you get a download completed
> notification, and the download opens on completion, so I think this issue is
> specific to save as PDF.

Even when a webpage is saved as PDF, sometimes I get the notification that the PDF was saved (downloaded). When the completed notification is not triggered, if you close the app and then reopen it again and if you save any webpage as PDF, then the previous missing notifications (for completed downloads from previous sessions - before closing Fennec) are triggered.

Comment 9

[:Margaret Leibovic]

(In reply to Cristian Nicolae (:xti) from comment #8)

> Even when a webpage is saved as PDF, sometimes I get the notification that
> the PDF was saved (downloaded). When the completed notification is not
> triggered, if you close the app and then reopen it again and if you save any
> webpage as PDF, then the previous missing notifications (for completed
> downloads from previous sessions - before closing Fennec) are triggered.

Hm, that's weird. In any case, I think my fix in bug 701797 will take care of any strange behavior because we'll actually be tracking the downloads properly.