El dom, 07-08-2005 a las 17:54 +0100, Alex Bennee escribió:
> On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:14 +0200, Christian Biere wrote:
> > Paco Arjonilla wrote:
> > > I've been thinking about giving priorities to downloads.
Graphically, it
> > > would only add a numeric edit in the downloads pane, maybe near
the
> > > progress bar.
> >
> > I think a drop-down (or whatever it's called) popup menu entry would
> > be the easiest:
> >
> > +-----------------+
> > | Abort |
> > +-----------------+
> > | Abort all ... |
> > +-----------------+ +---+
> > | Set priority... | ->| 0 |
> > +-----------------+ | 1 |
> > | 2 |
> > ...
> > | 8 |
> > | 9 |
> > +---+
> >
> > Although nobody is really able to remember whether a high or a low
> > value means "important".
>
> >From a usability point of view I think having 9 priorities is too
many.
> And being able to tweak the bandwidth of each download and unessecery
> complication.
>
> I would suggest to keep it simple, 3 levels, labeled "High, Normal,
and
> Low". Instead of setting bandwidth just have High priority use upto
the
> global limit of bandwidth. If there is spare capacity then medium
> priority doenloads get to share it. Finally low which only gets
> bandwidth if the other streams are not using up the bandwidth.
>
>
> > [formula]
>
> Keep it Simple ;-)
>
> > > Any comments? Where should I implement the code, in the lib part
or the
> > > core?
> >
> > That should be "core" code.
>
> You'll need some iterface to the gui that allows the gui to query the
> current priority of a download and also send a message to set a new
> priority.
>
> I would recommend looking around the src/if/bridge/ui2c.c and c2ui.c
to
> get an sample of what interfaces are easy to plug together.
>
I agree with having only three priorities, in that case my idea is to
put a combo next to the size field in the downloads pane, that way it
would be visible whenever you select a file. Or even better, add a
column and change the priority with a popup menu like Christian has
proposed, but in the file pane and with High, Medium and Low priorities,
like in aMule.
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