This program acts as a download handler for ROX-Filer, fetching files dropped from web browsers.
To set it up install it to a suitable place, such as ~/Apps. Then in ROX-Filer Options enter the path to the AppRun file in "Drag & Drop=>Download handler"
Make sure you have installed the required dependencies first.
Optionally you can also install DownloadManager to allow multiple instances of Fetch to co-operate.
ZeroInstall is a way of running programs without the need to install them. If you are a user of ZeroInstall then you can run Fetch via http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/2005/interfaces/Fetch when using the injector.
| Version | Release date | Size | Changes |
| 0.0.1 | 5th June 2004 | 20K | First release. |
| 0.0.2 | 24th June 2004 | 17K | More informative display. Prompt for and store passwords. |
| 0.0.3 | 26th June 2004 | 17K | Fix bug in password lookup. |
| 0.0.4 | 5th August 2004 | 17K | Better code for reading the socket, less chance of blocking. |
| 0.0.5 | 25th September 2004 | 18K | More work on preventing blocking. |
| 0.0.6 | 22nd November 2004 | 19K | Display the icon for the file type, if we can. Backend fetcher now just attempts to fetch a full buffer. GUI can warn if backend stalled. Fetch to temporary file, renamed when fetch complete. Added Bytes fetched to display. Added comments on local and server type not matching. |
| 0.1.0 | 23rd January 2005 | Fixed bug where last part of download could appear to stall. Can use DownloadManager. | |
| 0.1.1 | 7th May 2005 | Require ROX-Lib 2.0.0. Use toplevel_ref() instead of main_loop(). Standardized options (added app menu entry). Shorter delays when connecting. Updated dclient.py. Take care when filename has no '.' in it. Use the signal sent by DownloadManager when a slot becomes available. Be compatible with pygtk 2.4. | |
| 0.1.2 | 8th October 2005 | 22K | Switch to XDG choices. Remove some dead code. Extra error checks. Track down stray ChildKill. Changed layout of window slightly. Reduce redundant updates of the display and title (4* speed increase in my connection slowed my desktop down!). |
| 0.1.3 | 16th November 2005 | 23K | Update of window title now optional. |
| 0.2.0 | 26th November 2005 | 23K | Stable release (unchanged since 0.1.3). |
| 0.3.0 | 14th January 2006 | 23K | Added suport for DBUS 0.3x and later when communicating with DownloadManager. |
| 0.3.1 | 17th February 2006 | 24K | Fix problems relating to cancelling fetches. Increase maximum buffer size. Added install section on options, to help those that are expecting it to do something when run. |
| 0.3.2 | 13th January 2007 | 26K | Added i18n support. Can set the user.xdg.origin.url extended attribute on downloaded files. Can override waiting for DownloadManager to OK start. Use rox.basedir instead of rox.choices. |
| 0.3.3 | 5th May 2008 | 29K | Recognize application/octet-stream as a type servers return for an unknown type. Better description of types. Setting type when server disagrees now an option. Moved option handling into options.py. Re-enable the use of bytes_ready() to avoid blocking. Added extra buttons, which change. Support version 2 of the DownloadManager protocol. Added a password editing window. More readable formatting of byte sizes. Catch more exceptions. Now using rox.tasks module. Change suffix from .fetching to .part (same as Firefox). |