Comments on: File transfers and Empathy/2 http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:28:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Best GNOME ever « loopback http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1218 Best GNOME ever « loopback Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:09:40 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1218 [...] Si tratta di gio & gvsf, accoppiata che andrebbe a sostituire gnome-vfs per la gestione dei file locali e remoti, proposto da Alexander Larsson, e di Empathy, progetto multi-protocollo, multi-piatatforma, multi-finanziato per rendere semplice l’aggiunta di funzionalità di messaggeria istantanea (e in un futuro, spero prossimo, anche di chat vocale) nelle varie applicazioni, proposto da Xavier Claessens. Tra l’altro il nostro Marco Barisione, nell’ambito del progetto SOC 2007 di google, con il suo Telekinesis ha contribuito in maniera decisiva ad Empathy, aggiungendo la possibilità di trasferire in maniera rapida e indolore file da un client all’altro. [...] [...] Si tratta di gio & gvsf, accoppiata che andrebbe a sostituire gnome-vfs per la gestione dei file locali e remoti, proposto da Alexander Larsson, e di Empathy, progetto multi-protocollo, multi-piatatforma, multi-finanziato per rendere semplice l’aggiunta di funzionalità di messaggeria istantanea (e in un futuro, spero prossimo, anche di chat vocale) nelle varie applicazioni, proposto da Xavier Claessens. Tra l’altro il nostro Marco Barisione, nell’ambito del progetto SOC 2007 di google, con il suo Telekinesis ha contribuito in maniera decisiva ad Empathy, aggiungendo la possibilità di trasferire in maniera rapida e indolore file da un client all’altro. [...]

]]> By: Sebastian http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 Sebastian Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:52:15 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1107 IMHO Gnome really should have a unified download manager that lives in the tray that epiphany, torrents, nautilus, empathy etc can all use. Like Jon mentioned, I remember a project that did this but then it just sadly disappeared... IMHO Gnome really should have a unified download manager that lives in the tray that epiphany, torrents, nautilus, empathy etc can all use. Like Jon mentioned, I remember a project that did this but then it just sadly disappeared…

]]> By: mpt http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 mpt Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:09:29 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1106 I appreciate your desire for consistency, but I don’t think the current Epiphany layout is good enough for consistency to be worthwhile yet. And it would be easier to propose changes to the Epiphany developers if you’ve already shown that they can work. ;-) (By the way, your “Sending a file” screencast would be simpler if it showed you just dragging the file from the desktop onto the recipient — instead of going into a context menu to select a menu item that opened a filepicker for you to select a file that was sitting there in plain sight the whole time.) I appreciate your desire for consistency, but I don’t think the current Epiphany layout is good enough for consistency to be worthwhile yet. And it would be easier to propose changes to the Epiphany developers if you’ve already shown that they can work. ;-)

(By the way, your “Sending a file” screencast would be simpler if it showed you just dragging the file from the desktop onto the recipient — instead of going into a context menu to select a menu item that opened a filepicker for you to select a file that was sitting there in plain sight the whole time.)

]]> By: barisione http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 barisione Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:46:13 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1105 @mpt: Because the dialog was written by Epiphany developers and I want to keep them as close as possible. Probably I will propose some changes in the Epiphany dialog in the next weeks. @mpt:
Because the dialog was written by Epiphany developers and I want to keep them as close as possible.
Probably I will propose some changes in the Epiphany dialog in the next weeks.

]]> By: mpt http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 mpt Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:44:37 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1104 Why not make the progress bar take up most of the width of the Transfers window, like it does in most Web browsers? That way, it's easier to see whether the download has finished if you're looking at it from a distance, doing something away from the computer while you wait. Put the details below (or above) the progress bar, e.g. “2.1 MB of 8.2 MB, about 2 minutes”. Why not make the progress bar take up most of the width of the Transfers window, like it does in most Web browsers? That way, it’s easier to see whether the download has finished if you’re looking at it from a distance, doing something away from the computer while you wait. Put the details below (or above) the progress bar, e.g. “2.1 MB of 8.2 MB, about 2 minutes”.

]]> By: barisione http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 barisione Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:03:25 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1103 @ReinoutS: No, it's not using status icons @ReinoutS, Jon, Lean Fuglsang: We plan to use mathusalem but it's not ready yet. @ReinoutS:
No, it’s not using status icons

@ReinoutS, Jon, Lean Fuglsang:
We plan to use mathusalem but it’s not ready yet.

]]> By: Lean Fuglsang http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Lean Fuglsang Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:12:17 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1102 Could you put the progress window in a seperate application, that uses d-bus to find out the status of the downloads. Then it would be easy to let multiple applications show download status in the same window. People do not care if you are downloading with epiphany, transfering a file with nautilus, gaim or using empathy. A step in the right direction would be if your (or any other) application did this, then other could join the party. Good luck. Could you put the progress window in a seperate application, that uses d-bus to find out the status of the downloads.
Then it would be easy to let multiple applications show download status in the same window.
People do not care if you are downloading with epiphany, transfering a file with nautilus, gaim or using empathy.
A step in the right direction would be if your (or any other) application did this, then other could join the party. Good luck.

]]> By: Kevin http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 Kevin Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:51:58 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1101 I agree with the square progress bar being ugly. I propose the removal of the text percentage and replace the progress bar with a pie chart. Nonetheless, very nice improvements. I agree with the square progress bar being ugly. I propose the removal of the text percentage and replace the progress bar with a pie chart. Nonetheless, very nice improvements.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 Jon Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:53:43 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1100 I agree that the dialog should appear as the same in epiphany. Ideally there should be some kind of dbus application that sites in the notification area which handles all transfers, whether from a torrent client, empathy or epiphany. I think this was being developed at one time for a SOC project but I think it got abandoned. I agree that the dialog should appear as the same in epiphany. Ideally there should be some kind of dbus application that sites in the notification area which handles all transfers, whether from a torrent client, empathy or epiphany.

I think this was being developed at one time for a SOC project but I think it got abandoned.

]]> By: ReinoutS http://blog.barisione.org/2007-07/file-transfers-and-empathy2/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 ReinoutS Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:41:32 +0000 http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=95#comment-1099 Does the download dialog use a download notification icon like the epiphany one? If epiphany and empathy are downloading at the same time, are two download windows/notification icons visible (I hope not)? By the way, Epiphany would like to switch to Mathusalem if/when it's finished: see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389602 and http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2006-August/msg00079.html P.S. For a moment there, I thought Empathy was ported to OS/2... Does the download dialog use a download notification icon like the epiphany one? If epiphany and empathy are downloading at the same time, are two download windows/notification icons visible (I hope not)?

By the way, Epiphany would like to switch to Mathusalem if/when it’s finished: see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389602 and http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2006-August/msg00079.html

P.S. For a moment there, I thought Empathy was ported to OS/2…

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