Re: [gnome-network]gnome-network download manager

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:41, Manuel Clos wrote:
> > Downman consists of:
> > 	- downmand: a daemon that takes care of downloading the files
>
> how is it activated?

Currently Gnome Download Manager activates/starts it if it can't connect 
to the daemon. I was thinking on moving this to utillib, so it will 
start automatically when a client first tries to acces it.

> > 	- downman-bonobo: it is in the works and will allow for other programs 
> > to use downman trough a simple bonobo interface
>
> the one you sent?
>
> In this, I see the problem of not having the libgnetwork bit, which is
> one of my priorities.

What do you mean?

> > 	- basic things like adding a download, starting, _queuing_, stopping, 
> > delete...
> > 	- limit speed of the downloads
> > 	- create different lists of downloads (projects) each with a different 
> > target directory and properties
> > 	- limit the simultaneous downloads on a project
> > 	- limit speed of a project
> > 	- do recursive downloads
> > 	- limit the number of connections to a server
> >
> > I can't remember more right now, well, it also features a nice Gnome 2 
> > GUI with progressbars and mime type icons :)
>
> is all this easily available in a form that can be moved to its own
> place and start being a library?

Yes. The daemon has its own source directory. The clients each have its 
source directory. And clients only depend on utillib, where all 
functions needed for connecting, adding downloads and controlling them 
reside. Utillib is also a single source directory. The util lib is built 
and then clients link to it.

> well, we dont want to implement it from scratch. I think its clear we
> want a good architecture for this transfer stuff.
>
> Yes, transfer, which I dont know if its taken into account in downman.
> That is, is it "hard-coded" for downloads-only?

Umh, I don't know what you mean. Upload is like donwload, you write 
instead on reading. The different things are in the UI.

I was going to implement uploads later, and moving to gnome-vfs will 
make it far more easier. The daemon handles projects, and projects 
handle downloads. Downloads are GObjects with functions to manage them 
and signals that are catched by the project, so that it is easy to 
change bits from the download object without touching everything.

To sum up, there is no problem on having a upload or transfer class, 
they are just "items" in a list, so minimal modification is needed.

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Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net
http://llanero.eresmas.net