On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:18, Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]>wrote:
> Conscious User wrote on 20/04/10 14:21: > > > I think it would be fine enough if the "download indicator" was a menu > > with one item per download. This item would have a percentage, a label > > and an icon indicating the source application. Clicking on each item > > opens such application. A last, "preferences" item, would open a window > > for things such as reprioritizing. > "preferences" would make sense here for switching available options on the way you *prefer* the proposed new downloader-service to handle its tasks, including prioritization.. Conscious makes a point with keeping the topic with "Indicators for showing progress" ;) an extra window for manual interaction with the proposed new downloader-service is of course reasonable and practical, leads away from the original idea of representing such a service in indicator form up in our beloved panel. > What would be the usefulness of showing the download portion of these > tasks in a menu? > brief informative overview with the possibility to invoke the interactive overview you proposed (windowed) And if package downloads in particular shouldn't be shown in the menu > (Update Manager is another example of this), what would be the dividing > line between downloads that should be in the menu and downloads that > shouldn't? > all downloads can be shown. downloading as a protocol-independent service as proposed would yet regard packagemanager activities as one single item only. as you mentioned before, disk-performance is being reduced by every write-to-disk operation, therefore all such operations should notify the proposed service, so it can autoprioritize.
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