Re: Download manager and proxies

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hello Henry,

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Henry Baldursson wrote:

> At any rate, I have started working on this. I decided this would be
> as good a chance as any to get more familiar woth Gnome/GTK+ and GUI
> programming in general, since I've never done that before.

That's great to hear! Keep us posted on your progress :)

> Torrent kickbacks. The name of the project is gnome-file-broker.

If you put your code in GNOME cvs, the GNOME translation project can 
start working on translations as well.

> I´m not sure from the usability standpoint which is better, to keep
> the notebook containers or to have just a single window with pixmaps
> and text style differentiating between the down/up/complete entries.

On the use of tabbed notebooks, see the HIG[1]. Personally, I think it 
would be best if you could get a back-end working first, then we could 
discuss a suitable UI later. Actually, I'm not convinced at all that 
gnome-file-broker needs its own window... :)

> and some background in C++ and working with CORBA's IDLs, so I'm
> hoping Bonobo won't give me any difficulties for things like drag&drop
> and such.

Good idea. How about a panel applet that accepts dropped links?

> I'm also going to try to do as little work as possible, and rely
> mostly on existing code mainly because I am lazy.

Excellent example of intelligent laziness, I'd say. More code re-use 
means less maintainability headaches.

> expecting to have is implementing torrent support, so I think I'll
> focus off that in the beginning.

There is a project 'gnome-btdownload' on sourceforge, although it's 
python-based. You might want to look at that too, especially since 
python code will be accepted in GNOME modules (or that's the conclusion 
I draw from the desktop-devel discussion).

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-notebooks.html

regards,

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