I have noticed a few problems:

* Firstly, a null pointer exception seems to be thrown if you choose an
invalid  server (ie. one that doesn't work).

* The drawing of the progress bar is screwy, it seems to draw right
across the  window under the cancel and Save File buttons!

I don't see any icons...

The input-box for the key is right at the top edge of the window (on
Linux), this looks somewhat ugly.

The "Cancel" button remains even after an insert of request is complete
- this is misleading.

The "(Leave server blank..." messages is chopped off at "this comp...". 
Perhaps instead of this message, you just put "tcp/localhost:19114" in
the box to make it explicit.

It would be cool to be able to view a downloaded file (assuming it is
ascii text) without having to save it.

It is probably the fault of the Linux JDK I am using, but the rendering
of the window is pretty crappy (see Fkey:
"jpeg/screenshot/FGUI-16042000" to see what I mean).  One thing to
consider for the future might be taking the "Winamp" approach to things
in terms of the GUI, and coming up with a much smaller client (talking
about physical Window size here), rendered using images rather than
relying on the AWT.  It would look much cooler IMHO, and would rely less
on the GUI rendering ability of the host platform (perhaps I am being
selfish here ;-).

The reason I am being so fussy about FGUI is that I really think that it
is cool, and once it is stable we should include a script in the
distribution for launching it.

I have suddenly discovered that I have a free afternoon, so I will take
a hard look at the code and see if there is anything I can do to improve
it.

Ian.

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