GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675853
Downloads pile in the download bar, pushing to the right the interface
Last modified: 2015-10-29 12:37:06 UTC
Created attachment 213844 [details] many downloads push close button off the download bar Download as many files needed to fill up the bottom download bar. This will push the Close button off screen.
Regarding the screenshot, in my monitor I don't see the part starting from the right of my name.
This is in Fedora 17.
Just figured the reason of the screenshot being the way it is: I had my laptop connected to a projector. I still see the problem without a projector though.
Happens also with Epiphany 3.6 and Fedora 18 (alpha). Having too many downloads forces the top-level window's width to increase overflowing the screen limits. It is true that this hides the close button for those having it on the right, but it also disrupt normal navigation since the webkit window rendering HTML pages starts having a width bigger than the screen estate, thus pushing all contents centered in a page (e.g. blogs, newspapers, etc.) further and further to the right. I believe this bug should have a higher importance than normal, since it renders epiphany unusable under certain scenarios, unless you close and reopen it again (possibly losing your tabs / sessions). There are two solutions that come to mind: * [easy] put the downloads bar inside a gtk_scrolled_window + viewport. Add back a button (possibly on the left, instead than on the right as in older epiphany versions) that cleans only completed downloads, as Firefox does. * [harder] integrate downloads into the GNOME desktop. Use a notification while downloads progress, showing an indicator of the total progress. Clicking on the notification icon would show the list of downloads, the capability to stop them, the downloads already completed and not yet acknowledged (displaying the list and returning to the desktop cleans it?). Notifications of completed files are not shown for files downloaded in less than 5 seconds? It would be nice to have a proper download manager; maybe the UI design team could help. I am available to share my ideas. If there is some interest, please tell and I could come up with a mockup.
I've just seen there's a proposal that goes in this direction from the design team: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/tree/master/transfers I was thinking of something on the same lines, albeit with a "trash" button (to cancel the transfer) instead of the pause one. Also, some space can be saved in the system tray pop-up, by making the progress a slim blue line under the transfer filename. Please confirm this bug, and bump affected epiphany to version 3.6.
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