72049 - when opening a file, should there be a download progress dialog?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102352

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

couldn't find an existing bug for this, but pls dup if needed. this bug might be
fixed/rendered moot by the new downloading/helper app ui rewrite, too...

when i select "Open using" in the Downloading/helper app dialog, i get the
"Saving File" [ie, download progress] dialog. this raises a couple of questions:

a. should the download progress dialog appear at all when "Open using" is
selected?

b. if yes, could we rename the dialog to something more clear like "Loading
File" rather than "Saving File"? i'm assuming here that the file isn't really
being downloaded in the same sense as when a user selects "Save to disk"...but
correct me if am wrong!

to test this, for example, with quicktime [i did this on winNT using
2001.03.12.09 comm bits]:

0. make sure you have Quicktime installed.
1. go to an url that has a Quicktime file --you can nav thru
http://quicktime.apple.com to find one, or
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Ruud_temp/Mozilla.mov
2. when the Downloading dialog appears, make sure "Open using" is selected, then
click OK.

result: download progress dialog [labelled "Saving File"] appears. [when it
finished, the Quicktime app did launch, btw.]

Comment 1

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Not a beta stopper

Comment 2

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage: catfood nomination does not explain how it fits the published 
catfood criteria, hence minusing. 

Comment 3

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav pretriage: we minused this but forgot to set to Future. doing that now. 

Comment 4

[Bill Law]

There should be a dialog (so you can cancel if it takes a long time or lots of 
disk space and you change your mind).  It should have different 
wording/title/etc.  There may be other bugs for that; I'll close dups as I run 
across them.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: over to File Handling.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

The dialog title still briefly says "Saving", but then changes to "... of
filename Completed".

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

marking duplicate of bug 102352, because that bug describes the issue more
clearly, imho.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102352 ***