[kget] - Bored of kget annoyances - (Open)

i92guboj

So much time using kget under kde as download manager, and never managed to download something bigger than 4 or 5 mb without the download being stopped. The thing comes always to this end: the download stops (though its state does not change) and all the options in the right click menu are greyed out except "Delete"). If I try another time the download the thing is still the same.

So much kde versions, so much years, so much different sites... An still the same. So I managed today to fix this little annoyance:

opensas · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:51 am Post subject:

Hi 6thpink

I've just managed to make my adsl usb modem to work, and the first thing I'm doing is looking for a fine download manager for linux (kind of FDM for windows)

In this doc http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/01/Download_Managers.pdf it says something about some caitoo thing which is supossed to replace kget, but I think is's been discontinued

I'll give a try to SDM (sun download manager), but it's a rpm, so I'll have to find out how to install it (couldn't find it in the portage tree)

If you see something worth trying, let us know

Saludos

Sas

i92guboj · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

Hola otra vez

Well, I'm sorry to say that I havent found any decent GUI. I'm still looking, yesterday I looked into www.sourceforge.net. Caitoo, amongst many others are there, but is discontinued as you say. I would like to try kbear but it won't compile in my machine, the same applies for kmago (I think kbear is based on it, and the compilation errors are the same, maybe my kde is too updated).

There is also kasablanca and kftpget (in portage, but they did not convince me, although, I can't say they are bad programs, since I haven't even tried for enough time to evaluate them). D4x is in portage, but is very buggy, as prozilla and its GUI.

For now (unless I find something) I will go with command wget. I will look on some other command line tools, since, at least for now, in GUI terms I am hopeless.

Changing topic: to unpack the sdm rpm package you can use rpm2targz, from the package called rpm2targz, which will convert the rpm into a tgz package, that you can unpack. You need a java runtime environment to run it, which is not a good thing, and anyway, I tried it and is the most featureless download manager ever seen.

Have no doubt that if I dig something deeper and find anything interesting I will notify here.

Saludos

opensas · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:35 am Post subject:

Hi 6thpink

I was thinking what would be a fairly simple and at the same time flexible solution to our task.

I would certainly require some kde programming skill -which I lack- but may be we can motivate some enthusiast developer to take this endeavour.

I thought this solution would be a tiny-little plug-in, that catches every click on a file from konqueror, and then (after diplaying the save to dialog) and according to a kmyget.conf file, fires up a console based download manager, passing the name of the url and the destination.

The output of the console shoud be redirected to some log file, in order to let this little plugins get such info as the size of the file, the percentage, estimated time and stuff like that, using once more some definitions from the conf file with greps and cuts to get the appropiated data.

Besides, the plugin should keep a list of every download, including start time, state (running, stopped, completed) log file (that is the output of the console app), and maybe some statistical data (time elapsed), in order to resume the downloads.

I think it would be a pretty handy and easy to configure tool. The conf file should come with wget, axel, scurl and other preconfigured, with a didactic purpouse in mind.

It could even have a bash wrapper ( mygetget.sh url dest, mygetesume.sh [url | all], mygetesume.sh [url | all], myget.sh info url [elapsed | pending | size | percentaje | downloadedsize ] and other like that) it wouldn't be too difficult to adapt it to other browsers.

And for displaying the status, it could even be reused the same konqueror's advance bar.

Well, I don't know, may be I'm missing something and this is not as easy as I think, or may be it isn't feasible at all.

If you like the idea, may be we can work it out a little more, and then "lobby" around to see if we can arouse someone's enthusiasm. :wink:

Saludos

Sas