Feature request: visual download notification for large files
Reported by
orsch...@gmail.com,
May 25 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/50.0.2661.102 Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: Dear all, I would like to have a conversation about a feature I've been thinking about recently. Imagine you're downloading a large file that takes a couple of minutes to download. I tend to forget about the download while doing other things. What is the expected behavior? What went wrong? Aside this background, it would be great if Chromium had an optional setting to remind me visually about a finished download (visual notification in the form of a card). This, of course, should only apply to files of a certain size. I don't need a notification for a file that is downloaded after 10 seconds but for files that take a couple of minutes. What do you think? Would that be a useful enhancement of the user experience in your eyes? Thankfully, ~Robert Did this work before? No Chrome version: 50.0.2661.102 Channel: stable OS Version: Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r999
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May 26 2016
Thanks for the feature request. Chrome OS has experimented with a notifications based UI for downloads that approximates what you want, and it's also possible to implement this feature using a downloads extension. As far as the core browser goes, this is unlikely to be implemented unless as a part of moving the downloads UI to notifications.
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May 26 2016
Dear asanka, Thanks for the explanation! Thus this would be up to an extension to implement that feature? Warmly, ~Robert
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May 26 2016
Yup. An extension could implement it.
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May 26 2016
Alright! I think the best way to start with it is here: - https://github.com/ehaagwlke/download-notifier - https://github.com/ehaagwlke/download-notifier/issues/2 Just for future reference for others. :) Warmly, ~Robert |
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Comment 1 by ashej...@chromium.org
, May 25 2016Components: -UI UI>Browser>Downloads
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)