On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 22:26, Conscious User
<conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Huh? It wouldn't be "the download portion of a task", I'm talking about
tasks that *are* downloads.
if the goal is to design an informative download indicator menu, i seriously would want to consider listing *all* download bandwidth relevant processes the user called himself - including update manager's package downloads..
@Conscious User: we don't have to look at every single package's progress in % only the average progress of update manager. if that is too much already, we'll just leave it for the "advanced" window you and MPT spoke about.
and there's a name for the aforementioned proposed service:
Download Manager. simple, telling and consistent, everybody will get it ;)
we could then call Download Manager from its indicator menu, in order to reprioritize the downloading processes e.g. to watch a movie, or to "finish downloading that large file to my USB stick before i leave the computer for an urgent meeting".
this would be especially beneficial to people on slower internet connections.
about listing the progress of large media file conversion, rendering and writing-to-disk:
that's something for a souped up system monitor to handle!
we have the apps, everything is there already, no need to re-invent the wheel all over.
let's just give the whole thing a reasonable scalable character and direction with perspective.
things will practically develop themselves, as we stand by watching :D