Re: [Gaim-devel] Usability issue and suggestion: remote file transfer requests

[Andrew S. <an...@en...>]

Phil Hannent wrote:
> Its kind of interesting that I have never heard anyone complain about
> Firefox or IE's file download box which works in a similar way, you
> can navigate to a page and a download dialogue box opens up which is
> similar to Gaims practice.

Web browsers don't send you to download a file when you're not expecting
to download one.  When you click a link, the box appears; this differs
from IM, where you can be sent something while you're not paying
attention to Gaim at all.

> Maybe what is required is like firefox's download statusbar plugin:
> http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/

Something generally like this -- i.e. not inline -- would be better than
having it inline.  The official MSN client always annoyed me when
someone sent me two files: "argh, it moved".

Perhaps something like the buddy authorisation box, stacking up along
the side of the chat window?  That way you have consistency in UI.

Andrew Sidwell