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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:11, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think it makes more sense to restrict the usage of a download
> indicator to specific "I want to save this file here" request.
> This is not the case for an update, the download is simply part
> of the process and later access to the file is not required. In
> fact, I configure Synaptic to delete the file after installation.
>
> If we start putting everything that involves downloading in the
> indicator, where do we draw the line? The update manager starts
> by downloading update versions of the repository index, and I
> am certainly *not* interested in knowing the details of that.
>

that's reasonable from this point of view.
showing other stuff might be interesting in the "advanced" view of the
download and disk-writing overview window mpt suggested then..