Desktop Seed Proposal: d4x

[Alexey Molchanov]

Hi and thanks for reply, Michael!

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 at 11:54:28 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:

> So I am not an Ubuntu Developer, but IMHO a download GUI should not be
> introduced to the desktop seed unless it has been introduced to GNOME
> proper.

Maybe you are right but I'd like to hear something more official from
Ubuntu decision makers like Jeff or Matt.

What exactly do you mean by proper introduction to GNOME?
Is Firefox properly introduced? (just an example)

> As it happens, (if I remember correctly) another download
> GUI (not d4x) has been proposed for inclusion in GNOME-2.10, but did not
> recieve a lot of support by the GNOME guys.

AFAIR you talking about Gwget. I've never used it but I've heard a lot
of _negative_ opinions about it from different people.

> There is already some downloading support normal users can/should be
> able to live with in Epiphany (and Firefox, probably).

I can not say anything about downloading support in Epiphany because I
don't use it, but I can about Firefox. Firefox often can't resume
download after connection breakage and it don't support cross session
resumable downloads at all (you can't add download to the queue, download
half of the file, shutdown Firefox, start Firefox again and resume
downloading this file).
This is a know bug in Firefox and if you desire I can give you links to
appropriate entries in mozilla's bugzilla. :) Do you still think that
such downloading "support" is enough for normal users? Don't forget that
many people doesn't have good DSL connection and have to use bad dial-up.

> Supported Ship seed is probably another matter, d4x (or another download
> GUI) might make sense there for power users, dunno.

Exactly! If d4x can't go into Desktop seed then Ship seed is fine for me.

P.S. Anybody tried d4x?

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    Alexey Molchanov