Re: [gnome-network]Download manager

["Beņat" <ixa mendaitz com>]

Hello:

I use a program, that although it doesn't have all the features you
mention, I think may be very interesting to consider.

http://downman.sourceforge.net/

It has a server/client architecture (a server tha does the download, and
a GTK GUI to control/monitor it), that could also be integrated with KDE
if wanted. I use it from Galeon (integrated) and although I miss some
features (segmentated download, mirror search) it works very well.

I think it's easier to implement those features and not to start from
scratch.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Beņat

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:17, tapia wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is my first message to this list, and my english isn't very good,
> so excuse me if I make some miskates :-)
> 
> Well, I talk this morning with rodrigo about writing a download manager
> for gnome-network. I'm writing one for Mono, so we can reuse the
> analysis.
> 
> That's how I think a modern download manager would be, taking as model
> the Windows program GetRight:
> 
> * Segmented downloads.
> 
> The app must allow several connections to a server, or download
> fragments of the file from different mirrors. For doing this, GetRight
> uses two techniques:
> 
> 	* Mirror search engines. There are internet services for that.
> 	  Generally it's not very useful, but sometimes allow you to
> 	  avoid a slow mirror.
> 
> 	* If you want to download two files with the same name from
> 	  different servers, GetRight look if they are the same file. If
> 	  they are, then it segments the download, using the servers as
> 	  mirrors.
> 
> Each download segment is absolutely independent, and the user can stop,
> restart or change the mirror of it.
> 
> * Tray Icon. That's my proposal on how to use the tray:
> 
> 	* The tray icon shows the total download speed, or the used
> 	  bandwith percent.
> 
> 	* The tray tooltip show, in separated lines, all the downloads,
> 	  showing the interesting info. By example:
> 	  "linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2 - Size: 17.3 Mb - gotten: 64%"
> 
> 	* left-clicking opens the download manager main window.
> 
> 	* right-clicking shows a popup menu with the downloads, and
> 	  clicking on it shows the control window for this download.
> 
> * Main window.
> 
> Toolbar:
> 
> 	* New -> New download dialog
> 	* Start -> Starts the selected downloads
> 	* Stop -> Stops the selected downloads
> 	* Start All
> 	* Stop All
> 
> A TreeView with the following columns:
> 
> 	* A checkbox showing if the download is selected or not.
> 	* The file name
> 	* The file size
> 	* A ProgressBar showing the download percent.
> 	* Download speed.
> 
> * Control Window for each download.
> 
> This window shows more info about the download, and let the user "play"
> with the download segments: change the mirror, add more segments...
> 
> Here you can see a GetRight control window:
> 
> www.eitig.com/~tapia/capturas/getright.jpg