Re: [Epiphany] Download Manager

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

Il lun, 2003-08-04 alle 21:09, Manuel Clos ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm writing here after talking with some people at #epiphany.
> 
> I'm developing Download Manager (http://downman.sf.net), and while it is 
> still buggy and incomplete, already does the job.
> 
> I was asking for some way to replace the download manager included in 
> epiphany, so power users can switch to downman or whatever to get speed 
> limit, different projects, ...
> 
> I think a corba interface would be great, so other download managers can 
> also get in (Downloader for X, Gnome transfer manager, ...)
> 
> So epiphany asks for "get me a download manager" and it talks to it. 
> This is different from creating a client to the downman daemon, which I 
> don't think is a good solution.
> 
> I was thinking of moving the "new download" dialog into a bonobo 
> app/control. I already need that for code reuse between gnome download 
> manager and the little droping url window (downman-gmonitor).

How would the corba interface be distributed so that it can be shared by
multiple download managers ?

Marco