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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Conscious User wrote on 21/04/10 21:26:
> 
>> What would be the usefulness of showing the download portion of these
>> tasks in a menu?
> 
> Huh? It wouldn't be "the download portion of a task", I'm talking about
> tasks that *are* downloads.
>...
> The mental process behind downloading things and installing packages
> is essentially different. For packages the user goes: "I want to
> install this". Download is just a part of the whole process, and not
> even obligatory (for example, when apt already has the packages
> cached from a previous attempt). For download, the user goes "I want
> this save this file to my hard drive". He doesn't need to install it,
> open it, or ever touch it if he does not want.
> 
> So, for this case I think the line is clear. Is there any other case
> that might be blurry?
>...

Downloads of archive files (such as .gz or .zip), where extracting them
should happen automatically after the download. In Safari's Downloads
window, for example, it's shown using the same progress bar.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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