Written by macros the 11 Jul 08 at 22:03.

So we would have the nice gui,
and all the nice features

So we would have the nice gui, and all the nice features

Written by AndrewLuecke the 21 Jan 09 at 11:59.

DownThemAll is free, works anywhere firefox does and from what I can see has pretty much the same primary features. Bittorrent can be handled with other apps/plugins, and videodownloader handles flash file downloads and conversions if required.

And, it can be installed without root privileges too,

Finally, I don't feel there is any good reason for Ubuntu to port this project, especially when there are alternatives already.

DownThemAll is free, works anywhere firefox does and from what I can see has pretty much the same primary features. Bittorrent can be handled with other apps/plugins, and videodownloader handles flash file downloads and conversions if required. And, it can be installed without root privileges too, Finally, I don't feel there is any good reason for Ubuntu to port this project, especially when there are alternatives already.

Written by Andrius the 3 Feb 09 at 16:02.

As it compiles under mingw, it could be compiled using winelib in ubuntu, it's a good testcase for both FDM and wine and after that the functions could be gradually be changed to be independant of winelib.

As it compiles under mingw, it could be compiled using winelib in ubuntu, it's a good testcase for both FDM and wine and after that the functions could be gradually be changed to be independant of winelib.

Written by catcatmu the 1 Mar 09 at 16:58.

Implement the extra features on an existing Download Manager. This way instead of rewriting code we can use part of the code of FDM. I suggest using Kget as a base. Kget already integrates nicely into the browsers and supports many features. All the extra features can be implimented without too much of a rewrite: Using KIO, the 'file preview function can be implemented and partial downloading, Using the plugins Utube(...) functions can be added. For scheduling (I'm not sure) but there is a Kde program already present maybe just embed it and add some signals/slots?

Multi Part downloading -- already present
Downloading from video sites -- Through a plugin

Detecting Mirrors -- Already present (Not sure)
Upload Manager -- Using KIO?
Resuming of broken Downloads and Checksums -- Plugin for chacksum
Scheduling -- (Not sure...)
Torrents -- Already Present
Partial downloading of zip archives - Through KIO

Implement the extra features on an existing Download Manager. This way instead of rewriting code we can use part of the code of FDM. I suggest using Kget as a base. Kget already integrates nicely into the browsers and supports many features. All the extra features can be implimented without too much of a rewrite: Using KIO, the 'file preview function can be implemented and partial downloading, Using the plugins Utube(...) functions can be added. For scheduling (I'm not sure) but there is a Kde program already present maybe just embed it and add some signals/slots? Multi Part downloading -- already present Downloading from video sites -- Through a plugin Detecting Mirrors -- Already present (Not sure) Upload Manager -- Using KIO? Resuming of broken Downloads and Checksums -- Plugin for chacksum Scheduling -- (Not sure...) Torrents -- Already Present Partial downloading of zip archives - Through KIO

Written by sradhakrishna the 12 Jul 09 at 11:05.

Fatrat - a very good download manager that i've come across in recent times. Amazing features, especially the remote control types.

I'd suggest using Fatrat as a base, evaluating what features are required and implement those.

IMHO, porting FDM is going to be an absolute pain, and enhancing Fatrat, an easy one.

Kudos to the creator of this nice piece of work!

Fatrat - a very good download manager that i've come across in recent times. Amazing features, especially the remote control types. I'd suggest using Fatrat as a base, evaluating what features are required and implement those. IMHO, porting FDM is going to be an absolute pain, and enhancing Fatrat, an easy one. Kudos to the creator of this nice piece of work!

Written by asosyal the 25 Jul 09 at 19:31.

Any other manager on linux can do all of this features of FDM ? The answer is NO! So we have to port it on linux. not just on linux and for the other unix systems like mac os too. This is very important. FDM work very fast. I like it :) FDM can stop download just for seconds automatically when you are surfing on internet with your browser. and many other features...

PLEASE PORT IT ON LİNUX

Any other manager on linux can do all of this features of FDM ? The answer is NO! So we have to port it on linux. not just on linux and for the other unix systems like mac os too. This is very important. FDM work very fast. I like it :) FDM can stop download just for seconds automatically when you are surfing on internet with your browser. and many other features... PLEASE PORT IT ON LİNUX

Written by slashdotaccount the 28 Sep 09 at 18:11.

I've been using aria2c (see: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ ) to do everything FDM does on Linux, I'm sure using the aria2c as the core process that it wouldn't be very hard to build a GUI program that looks very similar to FDM. I would recommend building on this foundation.

Here's a copypasta from their site:
"aria2 is a light-weight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE and WEB-Seeding), and Metalink.

aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.

There are other alternative applications, such as wget, curl. But aria2 has 2 distinctive features: (1) aria2 can download a file from several URIs(HTTP(S)/FTP/BitTorrent) and (2) If you give aria2 a list of URIs, aria2 downloads them concurrently. You don't have to wait for the current download queue to finish one file at a time anymore. aria2 tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth and downloads files quickly.

I've been using aria2c (see: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ ) to do everything FDM does on Linux, I'm sure using the aria2c as the core process that it wouldn't be very hard to build a GUI program that looks very similar to FDM. I would recommend building on this foundation. Here's a copypasta from their site: "aria2 is a light-weight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE and WEB-Seeding), and Metalink. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent. There are other alternative applications, such as wget, curl. But aria2 has 2 distinctive features: (1) aria2 can download a file from several URIs(HTTP(S)/FTP/BitTorrent) and (2) If you give aria2 a list of URIs, aria2 downloads them concurrently. You don't have to wait for the current download queue to finish one file at a time anymore. aria2 tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth and downloads files quickly. There are also some applications that have the ability of segmented downloading. Typically these applications split a file by the number of threads and download them parallel and wait for all threads to finish. In other words, they don't split unfinished segments adaptively. Normally(if things goes well) there is no problem for this strategy, but if one thread is very slow(i.e. one of the server is very slow), then you have to wait for it to finish. aria2 can cope with this peculiar situation. aria2 can split segment adaptively all the way down to 1MiB. So you don't have to worry about the above problem. But you might complain: if a slow server is downloading last 1MiB, then you have to wait for that none the less. The nswer is "no". Even in such case, aria2 does the job quite well: aria2 cancels slow server and use the faster server to finish download. In other words, aria2 is very clever and reliable in many situations. Unlike original Aria, which has GTK+ interface, aria2 provides command-line interface only. But it brings lower resource requirement. The physical memory usage is typically 3MB(normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 6MB(BitTorrent downloads). CPU usage in BitTorrent with download speed of 1500KB/sec is around 6%. It is being actively developed by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa."