SteadyFlow download manager gets updated for Natty, adds subtle improvements

By , Published May 8, 2011

Lightweight download manager ‘Steadyflow’ has been updated with support for Ubuntu 11.04, a ‘time indicator’ and the ‘ability to run.. a command when a download completes.’

The elementary-styled application can be installed from the developers – Maia Kozheva - PPA, which provides packages for Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04 and initial support for 11.10. Support for Ubuntu 10.04 has been dropped due to internal changes, as Maia writes on her blog: -

“Under the hood, the code has been fixed to build with Vala 0.12 and either the old or new libnotify, and dropped the deprecated dbus-glib in favor of GDBus. The latter means that it won’t build on Lucid anymore since it requires GLib 2.26 functionality. “

To install, add ‘ppa:sikon/steadyflow‘ to your system sources, update and then install ‘Steadyflow‘ from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Source: lucidfox

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  • http://twitter.com/Ubuntumann Peter Lustig

    <3 Steadyflow

  • http://profiles.google.com/msincster Максим Ушаков

    Really cool download manager!!

  • http://www.bodhost.co.uk/cloud-server-hosting.php CloudhostingUK

    Thank you for the update.

  • http://anaershadowynomaly.deviantart.com Farran Lee

    I’m impressed Joey that you managed to pause such a small download :P

  • https://launchpad.net/~rafalcieslak256 rc

    Oh noes! Steadyflow is updated for natty! I switch to Arch™.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t understand you people every time y come here saying “I switch to Arch” who care. just don’t come back here please

      • Anonymous

        It’s a meme in OMG! Ubuntu!, most people who say they switched to arch are just being sarcastic.

        • Anonymous

          But its only funny part of the time.

  • http://lucidfox.org/ Maia Kozheva

    I’m not sure such a minor release warranted an article, but oh well, free publicity. :)

    Something not mentioned in the article: the upcoming version 0.1.7 adds authentication dialogs for non-anonymous FTP and SMB, as well as the “pause all” and “resume all” buttons in the indicator menu. It’s in bzr, just not released yet.

    • http://twitter.com/hypodermia Emily S.

      This is my first time hearing about it, so thanks for putting it out, and thanks to OMGU for writing it up. :) It’s very cute.

    • Anonymous

      um, i wonder if flashgot has support for steadyflow yet

      • http://lucidfox.org/ Maia Kozheva

        It does.

  • Anonymous

    really nice…elegant.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know about you guys but doesn’t this seem alot like download them all for firefox? I mean its great if not just for the ability to quickly download direct downloads easily even if you don’t use firefox.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/7GXJ4CL5A6A5YPPUO47UQXGP5Y Johan

      @technologyunit:disqus Downthemall is a brilliant extension.

  • Anonymous

    Is there a way to integrate it with Chrome? The only thing lame in google’s browser is the download manager =(

    • http://lucidfox.org/ Maia Kozheva

      There is integration for Firefox (via FlashGot) and Epiphany (via the ephyflow package, available in the same PPA). No Chromium integration yet. That would require writing an NPAPI plugin. Maybe someone could modify the FatRat Chromium extension…

    • http://twitter.com/dannydubyav2 Daniel Williams

      For Chrome, you can use the Download Assistant extension. In its options, add Steadyflow as a custom downloader with the command “steadyflow add $URL”.

    • http://lucidfox.org/ Maia Kozheva

      I have added a Chrome/Chromium extension for x86 and x86-64, based on the FatRat extension. See
      https://launchpad.net/chromeflow
      .

      • http://alaukik.myopenid.com/ Alaukik

        that was quick !!

      • Anonymous

        Thank you very much! It took me longer to notice your answer than what it took you to modify the FatRat extension! 

  • Anonymous

    Is there a way to integrate it with Chrome? The only thing lame in google’s browser is the download manager =(

  • Anonymous

    Is there a way to integrate it with Chrome? The only thing lame in google’s browser is the download manager =(

  • Anonymous

    Maybe I’m too old school, but what’s wrong with wget?

    • http://profiles.google.com/klevin92 Kleverson Royther

      Good question. If it comes to GUI, there’s an app for… I mean… There’s gwget for that.

    • http://lucidfox.org/ Maia Kozheva

      Nothing is particularly wrong with wget, as long as you’re comfortable with the command line. Gwget does provide a GUI for it, but it’s not particularly pretty, both UI and code-wise – not to mention it’s apparently not maintained anymore.

      I wanted a simple, slick-looking application that I could recommend to non-technical users, like my parents.

  • http://technos.wordpress.com/ Daniele80

    No update for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS?

  • http://www.facebook.com/hejhej.anders Anders Carlsson

    Has anyone succesfully integrated it with epiphany in natty? The package ephyflow doesn’t seem to exist for natty.

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