Improve the download window

Improve the download window

In my opinion this is one aspect of Opera that is inferior to other browsers: the download window.

I think it needs a major redesign. How it needs to be redesigned, I don't know, but it does need to be I think.

Does anyone else agree with me?

What's wrong with it? What's missing from it that's in other browsers?

Perhaps add an option to turn it into a smaller pop-up window instead of a tab (my bad if you can already do this). Kind of like FF's download window.

Also, it'd be nice if there was a button that cleared all finished downloads, instead of having to right-click one of the entries in the list (you can't right-click the whitespace below) and click "Remove all finished".

A "copy download link" context menu item like in FF would be cool, too. I haven't used FF in ages but I liked this feature and often need it in Opera. Right now you can only copy all of the file info in Opera, not just the download URL.

A pause / stop button next to each download entry in the download list would be convenient as well.

I'd like to see an option in the view-menu like "Show in background when starting download and auto-close when downloads are finished"

Originally posted by ohxten:

A pause / stop button next to each download entry in the download list would be convenient as well.

Yes!

Originally posted by ohxten:

Perhaps add an option to turn it into a smaller pop-up window instead of a tab (my bad if you can already do this). Kind of like FF's download window.

Right click the tab, Arrange, Restore.

Also, it'd be nice if there was a button that cleared all finished downloads, instead of having to right-click one of the entries in the list (you can't right-click the whitespace below) and click "Remove all finished".

They clear themselves after an allotted time period, it' s somewhere in the settings.

A "copy download link" context menu item like in FF would be cool, too. I haven't used FF in ages but I liked this feature and often need it in Opera. Right now you can only copy all of the file info in Opera, not just the download URL.

Not a bad idea, I've needed this maybe once or twice in the past.

A pause / stop button next to each download entry in the download list would be convenient as well.

Not really all that important as there's already buttons for this at the top, but okay.

Originally posted by ohxten:

Also, it'd be nice if there was a button that cleared all finished downloads, instead of having to right-click one of the entries in the list (you can't right-click the whitespace below) and click "Remove all finished".

To include a custom button:
- e.g. go to: this page
- Click a Remove all finished button
- Go to your download tab
- Right click toolbar -> Customize
- Drag remove all finished button to your toolbar (Buttons -> My Buttons)

I personally always add a mouse gesture to do this:
- Settings->Preferences->Shortcuts->Mouse setup->Edit
- Add the gesture to Transfer Panel.
- Input: GestureUp, GestureLeft
- Actions: Remove all finished transfers

I like the (Up; left) gesture because it combines nicely with the close tab gesture (down; right).
I.e. draw a box to clear downloads and close the tab.

Right click the tab, Arrange, Restore.

Cool! Now if only you could minimize this window and it showed up in the Windows taskbar.

To include a custom button:

Sweet, thanks.

Originally posted by Darquan:

Originally posted by ohxten:

Also, it'd be nice if there was a button that cleared all finished downloads, instead of having to right-click one of the entries in the list (you can't right-click the whitespace below) and click "Remove all finished".

To include a custom button:
- e.g. go to: this page
- Click a Remove all finished button
- Go to your download tab
- Right click toolbar -> Customize
- Drag remove all finished button to your toolbar (Buttons -> My Buttons)

I personally always add a mouse gesture to do this:
- Settings->Preferences->Shortcuts->Mouse setup->Edit
- Add the gesture to Transfer Panel.
- Input: GestureUp, GestureLeft
- Actions: Remove all finished transfers

I like the (Up; left) gesture because it combines nicely with the close tab gesture (down; right).
I.e. draw a box to clear downloads and close the tab.

I have the same button but it is named Cleanup, does the exact same but you beat me to it! Thanks for the link though as I can use this one on another Opera install I haven't fully customized.

Originally posted by dertbox:

What's wrong with it? What's missing from it that's in other browsers?

What dertbox said. AFAIK, Opera's download manager is superior to Firefox, Chrome, and IE in every way.

Just turn the big window off and use the panel?

how can you save the entries in downloads menu forever? So that the entries dont get deleted after 5 days (or whatever)

I forget where, but that's not a very good idea, the longer the list gets, the slower it'll become to load the list each time you open it. It'll get pretty unstable over the course of a few months.

Originally posted by ohxten:

A pause / stop button next to each download entry in the download list would be convenient as well.

Stop is pause. You can continue the download after pressing stop, unless the website doesn't let you to do so.

Keeping download list for longer
If keeping the download list for longer could become a problem inside opera, simply make it a settings choice, for how long one would like to keep it, and from which time limit upwards, the list should automatically be truncated, exported and saved outside opera (path choice), so that it does not have to be loaded completely and the user can decide up to which limit, he would be prepared to bear the downturns to keeping longer download lists inside opera. My default settings delete the downloads almost daily. Can't find where this could be set to longer.

The only thing I'm missing from the current download window is the option to change download source. Sometimes, downloads from certain sites break, and the download locations change with the server or a passkey. If too much time passes while the download is inactive, I have to request a new download. It would be nice if I could change the URL to match the new one, and simply resume the download.

Though, I'm not entirely sure whether it's possible to resume like that from all sites in any case (JDownloader can only resume downloads on a few sites).

Other than that, I didn't vote on the poll, because OP didn't really suggest anything.