Download manager

[Raphael Groner]

Hi Christoph,

thanks for your reply and your opinion.

Gwget - If you ask me, I would keep gwget packaged while it is working
and it seems still to do the easy job currently. Right, it should be
removed from Fedora when upstream doesn't care any more about new
guidelines. I guess Gwget is irrelevant in regard to Gnome3 goals.

flareGet - commercialized crap on Sourceforge (yes, Sourceforge!).
Forget about it, it makes no sense for Fedora.

MultiGet - dead upstream, okay. Just wondered why not packaged.

Steadyflow vs. uGet - thanks for the hint. 
. How usable is the GUI? I am still considering uGet as feature
complete. 
. I don't understand the argument with the bigger package size
towards lesser features. Why was Firefox then removed from the image
due to size limitation but OpenJDK is kept cause of usability? Maybe
this is marketing talk, dunno. 
. uGet seems to lack translation work, that's true. For instance, the
german po is incomplete.
. Better integration of Steadyflow into Midori has no value. uGet has a
nice clipboad monitor that brings up a download window just after
copying the link from the browser.

Another 2¢ in the box.

-R.


Am Thu, 30 May 2013 12:00:04 +0000
schrieb xfce-request at lists.fedoraproject.org:

> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 22:18:18 +0200
> From: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at gmail.com>
> To: xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Download manager
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> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.05.2013, 15:18 +0200 schrieb Raphael Groner:
> > I would like to see a download 
> > manager included in the live image, especially Xfce. There are
> > several dl managers available on the base of Gtk.
> > 
> > - gwget 
> > ** already packaged but upstream is dead(?), patches available  
> 
> Where? What for?
> 
> Frankly speaking I am considering to orphan gwget. It's dead for
> years.
> 
> > - flareGet 
> > ** not (yet) packaged in Fedora
> > ** ships browser integration: firefox, chrome, chromium, opera etc.
> > ** also available for win_ows (so people may feel at home :P )
> > ** semi-commercial license model, may be difficult for Fedora
> > http://flareget.com/features  
> 
> I cannot find the code anywhere. What license is it?
> 
> > - MultiGet 
> > ** not (yet) packaged in Fedora
> > ** also available for win_ows (so people may feel at home :P )
> > ** multiple mirrors for one download possible
> > ** wxWidgets for the GUI, so it means another unwanted dependency
> > ** Does anyone know what concrete license it has? I can't find it.
> > http://multiget.sourceforge.net/  
> 
> It's packaged but orphaned as it is dead upstream.
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/multiget
> 
> > - uGet 
> > ** already packaged and actively maintained
> > ** similiar to gwget and multiget, but even more feature-rich
> > ** optional support for Aria2, instead of direct curl usage
> > ** browser integration could be easily done via incl. clipboard
> > monitor  
> 
> Looks nice IHMO it's too overblown for Xfce.
> 
> > I would prefer uGet cause it seems to need the lowest effort to
> > integrate it to live image.  
> 
> I would suggest steadyflow.  It's lean slick interface fits Xfce
> better I think.  It's is a little bigger than uget (768k compared to
> 560k) but this mainly due to the translations - and I consider proper
> localization important.
> 
> However I am not sure if we need a download manager anyway.  We
> already ship a webbrowser with download manager.  This should do for
> most people, I don't want to duplicate functionality.  For each task,
> we should have one program in the default install. 
> 
> Just my 2¢.
> 
> Best regards,
> Christoph