[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: [Bugs] #1508 UNSP: confusing wording on download from Browse

[Wade Brainerd]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 20:01, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ....Side note: Since the Journal displays the progress bar as files
>> are downloaded, wouldn't it be cool if Browse just handed the download
>> off to the Journal?  That would allow the download to continue even
>> after Browse stops.  It would also allow the download to be resumed if
>> the machine is restarted, network connection lost, etc.  Worthy
>> Journal feature request?
>
> This was the desired user experience, but mozilla's architecture made
> it quite hard without losing the ability to download inside existing
> http sessions.

I see what you mean about sessions.  Is there some way to detect
whether a download is dependent on the browser session?

Another option, though it would not allow later resuming, would be to
let the Browse instance keep running even after the activity has
"stopped".  It would just hide its main window and send some other
termination notice to the Sugar shell.  The activity failure notice
patch might be a good start; Browse could just send a
NotifyActivityEnded message to the shell without terminating its
process.

-Wade