GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 162971
Integrate downloader with Nautilus
Last modified: 2015-09-24 17:48:47 UTC
From http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2004-November/msg00048.html - "Downloader: We need to be smarter about this, doing something similar to Mac Finder might be nice. We need more discussion and ideas on simplifying the download of files. I like the Finder (open up nautilus and watch progress on the file downloading from the file browser) approach, which gives the end goal and the progress as it is downloading." Mockup: http://www.gnome.org/~clarkbw/designs/nautilus-downloads/nautilus-downloads.png
This can be an intersting feature but it has to deal with nautilus. The only job of Epiphany would be to say to Nautilus : "Download this URL". I'm not sure this is good or not since it would require users to run Nautilus with Epiphany, it's not always the case. A deal would be, for epiphany, to allow customize the download command. So people can choose : nautilus-download %s wget -c %s .... this can be a very useful and can be hidden somewhere in gconf, not in the UI.
Created attachment 50866 [details] mac download icons/integration with file manager Here are the icons used by mac browsers when the file is shown in the file manager.
Duplicate of bug 113444.
Related to, but probably not duplicate. thanks for pointing it out, though, ed.
Just one comment. Wouldn't an external download program cause problems when downloading from authenticated www servers? I mean, if I put a file in a .htpasswd protected area, wget will not be able to download it, right? Other sites may use cookies for this...
Tha plan is just to use an external program to display all the progress notifications; the downloading itself will continue to be handlered by Epiphany.
-> 1.12 due to feature and UI freeze.
Mass changing target 2.16 -> 2.18
See bug #389602 (marking as dependency).
*** Bug 113444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving Severity:enhancement bugs off of 2.20 target.