[Edbrowse-dev] bgl command

[Edbrowse-dev] bgl command

[Karl Dahlke]

> I was also wondering if it'd be possible to have a message if you try and quit
> with a download in progress,

Probably yes. But if you quit, the downloads continue.
At least they do on my system, I tested it.
And you still get the download complete messages when they are done.
That is what you would want.
edbrowse is not the process group leader, that is the shell,
so when edbrowse dies its children need not die.
All that being said, it would be nice to get notice,
as edbrowse leaves the building,
that you still have downloads in progress.

Karl Dahlke

Re: [Edbrowse-dev] bgl command

[Adam Thompson]

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:38:07AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> > I was also wondering if it'd be possible to have a message if you try and quit
> > with a download in progress,
> 
> Probably yes. But if you quit, the downloads continue.
> At least they do on my system, I tested it.
> And you still get the download complete messages when they are done.
> That is what you would want.
> edbrowse is not the process group leader, that is the shell,
> so when edbrowse dies its children need not die.
> All that being said, it would be nice to get notice,
> as edbrowse leaves the building,
> that you still have downloads in progress.

Agreed. It'd also be nice to have a way to cancel a background download from
within edbrowse (yes I could do this with ps, kill and a bit of guess work,
but a command'd be much nicer).

Cheers,
Adam.

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[Edbrowse-dev] bgl command

[Adam Thompson]

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 07:05:46AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> An unrelated question: bgl tracks and displays background downloads,
> should it also track and display foreground downloads?
> Obviously none of these will ever be in the in progress state.

I'd say not. The main reason I asked for this is because when you're browsing
away with something downloading in the background you've got no way of tracking
it and thus don't know when it's ok to quit your browser or what state the
download's in (particularly if you miss the completion or failure message).
If you've downloaded something in the foreground then you'll know when it's
done and probably've done something sensible with it.
I was also wondering if it'd be possible to have a message if you try and quit with a download in progress, like if you quit without writing your changes to a file?

Cheers,
Adam.

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