[Kget] The "New Download" dialog

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

Hiya,

I've got some comments regarding the "New Download" dialog (screenshot 
attached). I'm wondering if this is really an improvement over simply showing 
a filedialog for saving.

1) it shows a lot of information (lots of labels, buttons, two lineedits), it 
takes a while to read that information and find what exactly one can do with 
it.

2) what's the point of showing the source url? Very often this is a very long 
url without much information. On the attached screenshot, you see that the url 
is even cut off. Wouldn't it suffice to show the source url shortened (strip 
stuff from the middle) in the titlebar (e.g. "Download 
http://www.kde.org/../kget.tar.gz")

The only reason I can imagine for showing the url would be if it was unclear 
to the user, how the new download was created. But if the user deliberately 
downloads a file with konqueror or through drag&drop, he shouldn't need that 
information again.

3) why is the source url editable?

4) for setting the target directory/filename, it takes an extra to click to 
open the file dialog.

Maybe it's just me, but somehow this dialog "feels wrong" to me.

For comparison, I think firefox by default does neither ask for a filename nor 
for a directory when starting a download (the easy mode). You can configure it 
to show a filedialog, though.

Cheers,
Carsten
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