I'd quite like to see a progress bar similar to what eMule has. Bits that its downloaded OK fill in the bar in the colour blue and bits that it could not download are marked as red. Bits that it is currently downloading are yellow. The look of the progress bar would be the same as used on the Freenet Gateway page so everything sticks to the same theme.
It would be to hide away any settings and just have one button marked as 'Start Download', the progress bar and statistics just below the bar. If there is a problem downloading the file the interface should expand and reveal the settings that are used at the moment on the current page and have a button marked 'Retry Download'. Once you click retry download the settings could just hide away again. Once the download has successfully finished it should then give you a new button marked 'Save File'. Clicking that brings up the normal browser's save file dialogue. Just my idea for how the GUI could work. I can do a mockup of it if you'd like to see what I mean visually. Simon > -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Ian Clarke > Sent: 19 December 2002 17:12 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] SplitFileRequestServlet > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:56:39AM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > It is less polished than I would like, > > > but I think it's good enough so you can start working on cleaning up > > > UI. > > COOL! > > Can we have a discussion about how this GUI will work before you guys > start implementing something? > > My suggestion is that a splitfile download works just like a normal > download, except we create a new Infolet which will give the status > (using nice tables and colors and stuff for a graphical indication) of > each splitfile download (obviously there may be several occuring > concurrently), and allow the user to abort each of them if they so wish. > > One useful feature might be a warning indicator if, for example, it is a > splitfile with 50% redundancy, and less than 50% of the blocks requested > so-far have been successfully retrieved. > > Also, what is the status of two of the more ambitious features? > > 1) Streaming (which would support a "live" ogg audio broadcast) > 2) Reinsertion of chunks which couldn't be downloaded > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
