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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kiolib and little progress widget
From:       Hans Meine <hansmeine () dial-net ! de>
Date:       1999-03-17 12:55:37
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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:
>[snip]
>> 
>> I've seen a BeOS screenshot that had only one progress window for several
>> file transfers. That looked pretty cool, and many downloads wont clutter
>> the desktop. I assume is does something like: When a transfer starts, look
>> for an existing progress dialog. If one exists, just add a label and a
>> progressbar to it (and resize if necessary). If not open a new progress
>> dialog.
>
>My dream has been: one docked "download in progress" icon, and if you
>click on it you get a dialog with all running tranfers with progress bars
>and the option to cancel each one, just like you would expect from
>something like a printer status/queue dialog.
I want to stress two things/ideas at this point which were mentioned in other
threads and would solve all those things at least for me. And the good thing is
(best at the end): IMO both should be easy to implement (I mean easier than
other solutions)! :-))

1) Integrate KGet into Konqueror. The latter will open a new KGet window (if
  configured to do so) and put the downloads into the queue. KGet could be
  extended so that it provides the possibility to konqueror to show several
  downloads as one progress bar (for gifs/applets/... on HTML pages).

2) Extend KWM so that it can display window titles in the taskbar with a
  progress bar in the background if the title text contains a percentage string.
  This would enable progress bars even for non-KDE apps in a great manner.
  One could also imagine shell scripts displaying progress bars like this.
  Oh, I think this would be KPanel, not KWM, right? :-)

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