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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Pausing with KIO
From:       Luke Sandell <sandell () freeshell ! org>
Date:       2004-02-27 19:45:26
Message-ID: 200402271445.27216.sandell () freeshell ! org
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On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:21 am, Tom Chance wrote:
>
> Both no-brainers - of course they should be implemented :)

Unfortunately, the implementation is not a no-brainer. I can't think of an 
easy way to implement the first idea.  KIO::Job has no pause/resume function 
because resuming is handled transparently with KIO::SlaveBase::canResume().  

Of course, it could be done by actually killing the job and leaving the dialog 
open, and then spawning a new job when "resume" is pressed, but that would be 
a really messy hack on UIServer to convince it to assign the same id to a new 
job and suppress the normal "Resume" dialog. Plus it is possible that not all 
protocols are resumable, so the user could be disappointed. I think the best 
thing would be to add the methods canPause(), pause(), unpause() to KIO::Job 
and corresponding parts to KIO::SlaveBase. But what do I know?

Luke Sandell
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