Re: Nautilus epiphany integration & file transfers

[Nelson Benítez <gnel cenobioracing com>]

Raphaël Slinckx wrote:
<snip>
> > I think a nice system would be if all slow file transfer operations in
> > the system (say longer than 3 seconds) showed up in a shared dialog that
> > pops up when each new download starts. You can see each current file
> > transfer, either in a collapsed state where you see estimated time left
> > only, or in a more detailed state where you see things like download
> > rate, current amount downloaded etc. If you hide/close the progress
> > window it shows up as an icon in the panel (similar to e.g. the
> > NetworkManager applet or the battery applet). You can tell from the icon
> > if its downloading or if its finished, and if you click on it you get
> > the progress window back.
> >
> > Actually, I'm not even sure such a progress dialog setup need to be
> > implemented in nautilus. Maybe nautilus is just a user of the progress
> > subsystem, just as epiphany is.
>
>
> In the comments of my blog post, someone talked about his project (or
> maybe it was someone else's project)
>
> http://gtask.sourceforge.net/
> http://gtask.sourceforge.net/averti/averti.html
>
> It appear quite un-active, but it if more for the idea that i come up
> with this.

 I also described something similar or identical in the following email:
[1]http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-March/msg00125.html

my intention of what I said there is to emphatize the multitasking 
approach of a desktop and OS, when a program has a task that take a 
medium-long time to process (download email with evolution,compress 
files with file-roller,searching in gnome-search,download files with 
ephy) instead of putting a progress dialog that you have to waste your 
time looking at it or manually minimize it to be able to do other things 
in your desktop, you are notified of those operations through 
notification-area and so, save extra clicks and losing focus of the app 
you are using at the moment...

I think what I tell in mail[1] could be done with notification + async 
library(see below)+ dbus, so it could be a freedesktop.org thing so if 
for example a gnomer uses k3b to burn a dvd, he will get notifications 
of that operation, and viceversa kde guys using gnome apps. And for 
integration in gnome, maybe freedesktop spec defines text-only 
notifications (notifications indeed are text-only) and each desktop 
could extend that with his graphical ui  that read from the common async 
lib that centralize operations.

> Would it be generally accepted to have that sort of thing included with
> gnome desktop ?
>
> Let's say a library you can link against, containing simple hooks to
> add/remove/modify long-running tasks, with maybe a way to add
> retro-action, for example cancelling things .

I ve read on planet a library that seems to fit this requirements 
(AsyncWorker):

http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2005/06/05/34-more-asyncworker-news