Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 18:13 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> >  * Loading a file remotely.  gedit has a nice dialog here.
> > 
> >  * Saving a file remotely.  This is a trickier one to do right, as
> >    seeking on an http stream is pretty bad.  It's better to save the
> >    file locally and transfer it over.  libgsf has some support for this,
> >    but no dialog.  I started one in gnome-panel-screenshot, but it's
> >    pretty raw.
> 
> Isn't GtkFileChooser supposed to support this using the vfs backend? It
> certainly seems to for me. At least, it works for opening. I don't think
> gedit supports saving to a remote location yet, though.

The file chooser does an adequate job of locating a remote file, or
selecting a remote location to save at.  The issue I'm interested in
solving here is giving feedback to the user during these operations.

Additionally, gnome_vfs_async_xfer is pretty complicated to use.  A
convenience function that also shows a dialog would be great.

Thanks,
-Jonathan