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[Faisal Ali <dev.faisalali@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dinko,

    I wouldn't mind working on it and its certainly possible with DBus, 
but I am wondering if such a functionality would be better suited as an 
individual app or perhaps integrated deeper (Perhaps at the level of 
Unity?).

I'll try to develop something that should fit my need and hopefully will 
be beneficial to everyone else. I'll take this to the core-apps mailing 
list to see what their thoughts are.

On 05/08/2013 03:24 AM, Dinko Osmankovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe you can develop a download app with some functions exposed 
> through dbus. I'm not quite sure how if there exists qml api's but in 
> old qt4 there was dbus implementation. See here:
>
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/intro-to-dbus.html
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Faisal Ali <dev.faisalali@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:dev.faisalali@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I am curious as to any plans for a system download manager.
>     Basically, a system service that will handle all the necessary
>     download requests for each individual application. It would also
>     be a place where the download history can be viewed for every
>     application.
>
>     Android has an api that allows apps to "request" a download. I
>     would imagine that it's not much different for other phones.
>     http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html
>
>     Currently, I am building a Jamendo app. With Jamendo, the artists
>     allow their songs to be played and downloaded by thousands which
>     means that in addition to streaming, I would like to allow the
>     user to download the song for offline listening.
>
>     As of now, the only current method for me is to create a custom
>     plugin in C++ for qml which would handle the storing of music
>     file. Obviously, having a download manager that could do this
>     would be beneficial to many app developers.
>
>     So since I haven't seen any discussion (and correct me if I'm
>     wrong), are their any plans or ideas as to how this will be
>     implemented? I imagine it wouldn't be so much different from the
>     Android API.
>     Should this be a system service or a core app on its own?
>
>     - Faisal Ali
>
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