Hi, I'm Suraj, an open-source enthusiast from India. I would like to discuss about implementing the Transfers application<https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Transfers>idea for GNOME as part of GSoC 2013.
Generally, many GNOME users use download managers like kget for file downloads. as currently GNOME lacks a fully featured download manager. From the project listings, I found two download managers GGet (created as part of GSoC 2008) and Gwget ( which is a GTK2 front-end for GNU wget). Both the projects are outdated and also lack in many important features. Also, I don't think it would be feasible to implement the complete proposed features of Transfers application by one student as part of GSoC, so I would like to focus on working on the following after the design is finalized : 1. Implementing a basic framework of the project ie, basically kick-starting the project. 2. Adding support for independent file downloads/uploads - By this I mean adding the functionality of "downloading files from a web location" to the Transfers app. One of the ways to do this would be to use GNU wget as the back-end and build a GNOME3 based GUI around it. Another way would be to write the complete back-end itself (and I would prefer this as this could give the developer more control over the features to be implemented). - Support for browser monitoring and automatically fetching simple file download requests from installed browsers. 3. After completing the above, I would like to implement the notification service using dbus. This would include adding notification for current and finished file transfers. I have covered an important portion of Transfers and would like to discuss on the detailed implementation ideas and timeline. -- *With regards*, M S Suraj
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