Bug 100143

Summary: Make KGet Remember my Completed and Deleted Downloads for Better access to my downloads
Product: [Applications] kget Reporter: Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan <maarizwan>
Component: generalAssignee: Rainer Wirtz <rainer.wirtz>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2005-02-24 06:45:32 UTC 
Version:           v0.8.3 (using KDE 3.3.2, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.29

How to Reproduce:
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Suppose we have file1.txt, file2.txt, in a webserver.

1. Add the two files in KGet.
2. Download file1.txt
3. Delete file2.txt when it is half complete.

4. Now a day later, you want to know what files you've downloaded 
5. and which file you've deleted.
6. And you want to know the URL (download Link), as you've forgotten it.

Now KGet is helpless and the KDE user is miserable. There is no way to know What and from where the downloads happened. And Where those Downloaded files are.

If you use 10 different folders for downloads. it would be very tiring to find a single file in those 10 folders.

Expected Behavior:
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1. KGet must use TABS, 
2. Downloads, Completed, and Deleted
3. Downloads must show the current downloading and queued downloads.
4. Completed tab, must show the (you've guessed it) completed downloads and URL with time and size etc.
5. Deleted download tab must have the links to the deleted files. so that users can download again.

If these "Downloads", "Completed", "Deleted" tabs are implemented. Then Locating Information will be very easy.

A user can go to "Completed" Tab and right-click->Open the file. instead of opening Konqueror or Kfind then searching then opening the file.

KGet must help the user to locate the files and information, which the users have provided to KGet.

Thank you.
Comment 1 Rainer Wirtz 2005-02-25 00:15:23 UTC 
KGet writes logs in $KDEHOME/share/apps/kget/log. Having all ever completed or deleted transfers in some tabbed window is not practical. I'm looking into having the logwindow display logs from previous sessions. Will not come in time for kde-3.4.
Comment 2 Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2005-03-12 04:22:39 UTC 
>Having all ever completed or deleted transfers in some tabbed window is not practical.

Flashget a cool download manager for windows os does it! hence it is practical.

See how Flashget manages Downloaded, Deleted and incomplete files. Flashget works in Linux using wine: www.flashget.com. 

KGet is just a baby in front of Flashget, Internet Download manager, Gozilla, GetRight, etc.


to make it more practical:

1. have an option (clear all) to remove download history
2. have an option (clear all) to remove deleted files history

>I'm looking into having the logwindow display logs from previous sessions. Will not come in time for kde-3.4. 

I'm wishing for KDE 4.x, not for KDE-3.4. Thanks.
Comment 3 Ferdinand Gassauer 2007-01-16 22:09:59 UTC 
yes indeed there is a log window in KDESVN from today, but it does not show any content exept "21:58:20 : Welcome to KGet" (which is now), THe recently downloaded file is not shown, even though the logfile 
-rw-r--r-- 1 kdesvn users   477 2007-01-16 21:32 log16:1:2007-21:30:46
exists and shows the correct content

$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kget/logs (notice the 's' of logs compared to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100143#c1)
Comment 4 Urs Wolfer 2008-01-26 19:21:04 UTC 
KGet trunk (KDE 4.1) does have a history feature. All actions are logged and can be displayed later again.