[Kget] [Bug 102285] wish: Kontact-style multiple download progress bars

[Jens B.Benecke]

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Hi,

sorry to answer so late. I'll try to whip up some mockups during the weekend. However what I'd like comes close to what e.g. Firefox provides and what I tried to display in ASCII art in the original posting (above if you use the web interface).

The main characteristics are:
- use multiple lines (one for filename, one for progress bar, the source is optional IMHO)
- use a _few_ buttons (pause, restart, cancel is enough IMHO, everything else just clutters the interface and confuses the user)
- don't use full path names for copying, just the basename and maybe the target directory name.

- display the *average* download percentage in KGet's window title, or kicker icon (ie if you have a 20MB file at 5% and a 40MB file at 50%, then you have downloaded 20*0.05 + 40*.5 = 21MB of 60MB, which is about 34% altogether.

- IMHO the downloa progress windows should -perhaps optionally- all stick together and fold up to one corner of the screen, instead of being sprinkled all across the desktop. OSX does this (transfer progress windows, for copying and moving, always dock on one another and always choose a *corner* of the screen to stick to). I think it makes sense.

More ideas to follow :-)

Jens