[Adium-devl] Ticket #4501

[Evan Schoenberg]

The part file sounds less good than using a bundle to me... What's the  
advantage?



On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Jordan Schelew <jas8522 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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