[Adium-devl] Ticket #4501

[Jordan Schelew]

No offence to Mozilla but I cannot stand the way they handle file  
Downloads. It creates a file with the actual filename as well as the  
part file - two files is extremely confusing when you're really only  
downloading one ... particularly to novice users. Then when you stop  
the transfer, both files disappear yet you can still click the resume  
button in Firefox and the part file never comes back, but the real  
file magically re-appears. (This last part may be only with Firefox 3  
beta, but the two files thing is like that with Firefox2).

All I'm getting at is that *if* we use something like that we would  
want to do the following (different from Mozilla):
  1. Associate the .partxyz with Adium (Firefox doesn't seem to do  
that... so you can't double click to resume)
  2. Not have it create a new .part file - simply append it, thereby  
only having one file
  3. Probably not have it disappear if you stop the transfer ... it  
should stay in the default download folder either until the transfers  
window is cleared or it is manually deleted.

Jordan


On 8-Dec-07, at 2:23 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

>
> On 7-Dec-07, at 14:41 , Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> On Dec 07, 2007, at 11:16:15, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>> What I see is that extended attribs *lose* us the fact that the
>>> user sees clearly that it's an incomplete xfer because it shows
>>> with a different icon.
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> We could set a custom icon on the file at the same time as we set
>> the extended attributes, and set its creator type to 'AdIM' so that
>> it gets passed to us when it's double-clicked, and add code to our
>> open-document handler to check for the extended attributes and pass
>> to the resume code if appropriate.
>>
>> Or we could just make a bundle.
>
> Firefox adds the '.part' extension to indicate that the download is
> not yet finished. Maybe this could an approach?
>
> Andre
>
>
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