Implementing idea for GSoC 2013 - Transfers App

Hi,
I'm Suraj, an open-source enthusiast from India. I would like to discuss
about implementing the Transfers
application<https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Transfers>idea for
GNOME as part of GSoC 2013.

Generally, many GNOME users use download managers like kget for file
downloads. as currently GNOME lacks a fully featured download manager. From
the project listings, I found two download managers GGet (created as part
of GSoC 2008) and Gwget ( which is a GTK2 front-end for GNU wget). Both the
projects are outdated and also lack in many important features.

Also, I don't think it would be feasible to implement the complete proposed
features of Transfers application by one student as part of GSoC, so I
would like to focus on working on the following after the design is
finalized :
1. Implementing a basic framework of the project ie, basically
kick-starting the project.
2. Adding support for independent file downloads/uploads

- By this I mean adding the functionality of "downloading files from a web
location" to the Transfers app. One of the ways to do this would be to use
GNU wget as the back-end and build a GNOME3 based GUI around it. Another
way would be to write the complete back-end itself (and I would prefer this
as this could give the developer more control over the features to be
implemented).
- Support for browser monitoring and automatically fetching simple file
download requests from installed browsers.

3. After completing the above, I would like to implement the notification
service using dbus. This would include adding notification for current and
finished file transfers.

I have covered an important portion of Transfers and would like to discuss
on the detailed implementation ideas and timeline.


-- 
*With regards*,

M S Suraj

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