There, I finally got around to create a blog over at blogs.gnome.org, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. So, I guess a small introduction is in order. My name is Johan Svedberg and I’m a 25 year old CS-student from Umeå, Sweden. For a few years now I’ve been lurking around the GNOME community, doing some small bits and pieces here and there. Some people might recognize me from my work on OnTV which is a TV-guide applet for the panel.
During this summer I’ll be participating in Google Summer of Code. Mentored by Diego Escalante Urrelo I’ll be working on developing a modern Download Manager for the GNOME desktop. In addition to this I’ll also be helping out with creating Python bindings for GIO/GVFS. My plan is to continuesly blog about my progress on this and hopefully get some valuable feedback along the way.
Welcome 🙂
Hopefully plans for the download manager include integrating with the gio file copy/move dialogs in Nautilus? I am guessing that having separate windows for long running file operations really shouldn’t be necessary.
Good luck for your project !
I have some questions :
– does the download manager will work with epiphany ?
– does the download manager will support P2P (emule, torrent…) ?
hej hej,
gio python bindings? whouhou! this may mean that we get some progress for the python modules listed at http://live.gnome.org/GioPort – tak!
tretle: Thanks!
knipknap: Using the new nautilus dialog could be an option, need to think about this more though. Either way I can assure you that I won’t use one window/transfer. 🙂
Stu: Yes, my proposal includes creating a epiphany extension which integrates nicely with the download manager. The long term plan is to at some point support P2P, but I doubt there will be time to get it done during the summer.
aklapper: Indeed! Hopefully we’ll see some more “done” in that table during the summer! 🙂