[Adium-devl] Ticket #4501

[Chris Forsythe]

 From how Jordan explained it, I don't see any.

Chris

On Dec 8, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

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