On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:35:46PM -0000, Simon Porter wrote: > I'd quite like to see a progress bar similar to what eMule has. Bits > that its downloaded OK fill in the bar in the colour blue and bits that > it could not download are marked as red. Bits that it is currently > downloading are yellow. The look of the progress bar would be the same > as used on the Freenet Gateway page so everything sticks to the same > theme. Bombe's mockup follows more or less this principle. Not exactly a progress bar, more a bunch of cells... you'd have to see it. > > It would be to hide away any settings and just have one button marked as > 'Start Download', the progress bar and statistics just below the bar. If > there is a problem downloading the file the interface should expand and > reveal the settings that are used at the moment on the current page and > have a button marked 'Retry Download'. Once you click retry download the > settings could just hide away again. Is it just me or is there an obsession of late with hiding things from the user? :) > > Once the download has successfully finished it should then give you a > new button marked 'Save File'. Clicking that brings up the normal > browser's save file dialogue. Hmmm. No. We don't want to have to cache more than a segment at a time. > > Just my idea for how the GUI could work. I can do a mockup of it if > you'd like to see what I mean visually. > > Simon >
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