[Bugs] #2481 Browse UNSP: Browse should give an indication that a download is in progress

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#2481: Browse should give an indication that a download is in progress
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    Reporter:  greenfeld                  |          Owner:  lucian                     
        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Browse                     |        Version:  0.84.x                     
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:  design, screenshot         
Distribution:  OLPC                       |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Comment(by garycmartin):

 Whatever UI design is chosen, it will need to support the display multiple
 downloads. there is also the possibility that downloading will be handed
 over to a background task sp that you can quit Browse and Sugar will
 continue the download (I believe that is one reason why the progress bar
 UI is in the Journal, there was originally intent to fork background
 downloading that ran into some implementation issues).

 Possibly related: One design discussion at Sugar Camp Paris 2, was to make
 use the Sugar notification system, and provide an aggregate Download/File
 transfer widget that would appear in the top Frame edge listing all
 current file transfers. It would provide a single UI location to view
 progress and/or cancel/manage all downloads/uploads. This was a feature
 targeted to support the case where a teacher needs to send and/or receive
 file transfers from all kids in a class (via the Journal --> send to
 friend feature, likely to be extended to support --> send to group). The
 current Transfer UI does not scale well when dealing with many transfers
 at once (many icons and palettes to individually manipulate). Browse
 downloads could be potentially handled by the same UI.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2481#comment:4>
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