#3552 NORM First D: unfinished downloads leave broken entries in journal

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#3552: unfinished downloads leave broken entries in journal
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  Reporter:  danw              |       Owner:  tomeu                 
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:                        
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment(by Eben):

 Well, this is a gray area, I think.  The Journal isn't really "just
 another activity"; it's an integrated part of the filesystem...it ''is''
 the filesystem.  As such, the in progress entry is very much like the in
 progress download icon for Safari on OSX:  the icon representing the
 unfinished download has a mini embedded progress bar.  The key difference,
 of course, is that the browser itself still has a downloads window which
 provides management.

 I think in our case, it makes sense to defer to the Journal to provide
 this management, since it prevents the need for many activities to do the
 same thing (download manager) in different ways, and it prevents the need
 for an additional "floating window" within which such a manager could
 live.  In any case, you would get this same kind of alert in most browsers
 even if the download manager window wasn't open on screen, which would
 result in a very similar circumstance, albeit ''possible'' to have the
 window open in the same application.

 Obviously, if one tries to close the activity, we need to indicate that
 doing so would cancel the download.  It seems to make the most sense to do
 that in the context of the activity.  I also that, because of this, the
 alert upon completion makes sense within the context of the activity which
 initiated it.  Note that there is a complication when closing the activity
 from the Home screen, which would require us to focus the activity view
 when an alert of this type appears (that's something we need to handle in
 the general case).

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