Pause download when setting priority to paused

Cyborg · Post by **Cyborg** » 2004-03-28 20:33

What the subject says:

When i set the priority on a file in the queue to paused, i also want the download to pause (or else i have to stop them manually).

Twink · Post by **Twink** » 2004-03-29 01:17

but sometimes I want the opposite, I know it sounds weird but I do find it handy occasionally to set things to paused while they are downloading so they will get as much as they can then just leave that file.

Cyborg · Post by **Cyborg** » 2004-03-29 01:33

Well...Then there could be a settings option for it.

TheParanoidOne · Post by **TheParanoidOne** » 2004-03-29 03:30

Another fairly pointless settings option? The Advanced page is stuffed enough as it is.

Post by **GargoyleMT** » 2004-03-30 21:02

TheParanoidOne wrote:Another fairly pointless settings option? The Advanced page is stuffed enough as it is.

Hear Hear.

An Ask Joel article about usability and free software

(Joel being a fairly good authority on user interface design.)

Cyborg · Post by **Cyborg** » 2004-03-30 22:22

Actually I don't want it to be a setting option. I think it should always be like that.

cologic · Post by **cologic** » 2004-03-30 23:05

I don't.

TheParanoidOne · Post by **TheParanoidOne** » 2004-03-31 04:45

Cyborg wrote:Actually I don't want it to be a setting option. I think it should always be like that.

With your way, Twink can't do what he wants at all.
With the current way, you *can* do what you want, with one extra step.

Guitarm · Post by **Guitarm** » 2004-03-31 05:55

Code: Select all

If (UserFriendly == IdiotProof) {
    ChangeView;
    DevelopUI;
} else DevelopUI;

Cyborg · Post by **Cyborg** » 2004-03-31 23:01

In the popup-menu where you select different prioritys, there could be one saying "Paused and stop downloading" or something like that..You get the point.

Guitarm · Post by **Guitarm** » 2004-04-01 02:14

Paused ?, hmm...... it's a dynamic network, what should happen when you decide to resume the download and you discover that the user has left?, Should we do a rollback of the file?, delete it alltogether?

WolfmanProper · Post by **WolfmanProper** » 2004-04-01 06:15

TheParanoidOne wrote:Another fairly pointless settings option? The Advanced page is stuffed enough as it is.

Yeah. Perhaps it would be a good idea categorizing them?

WolfmanProper · Post by **WolfmanProper** » 2004-04-01 06:20

Guitarm wrote:Paused ?, hmm...... it's a dynamic network, what should happen when you decide to resume the download and you discover that the user has left?, Should we do a rollback of the file?, delete it alltogether?

What do you mean? What usually happens when a user has left is that the queue item is marked with "User offline". That's enough, isn't it?

Guitarm · Post by **Guitarm** » 2004-04-01 06:25

Hmmmm..........., I'm not sure it's that easy, Someone with a better knowledge of the inner workings might be more suited to answer this one. But all in all it might be a reasonable suggestion

Regards

TheParanoidOne · Post by **TheParanoidOne** » 2004-04-01 15:30

WolfmanProper wrote:
TheParanoidOne wrote:Another fairly pointless settings option? The Advanced page is stuffed enough as it is.
Yeah. Perhaps it would be a good idea categorizing them?

Good idea in theory, but categorising them doesn't change the fact that there are loads of options in there.

WolfmanProper · Post by **WolfmanProper** » 2004-04-02 02:30

TheParanoidOne wrote:
WolfmanProper wrote:
TheParanoidOne wrote:Another fairly pointless settings option? The Advanced page is stuffed enough as it is.
Yeah. Perhaps it would be a good idea categorizing them?
Good idea in theory, but categorising them doesn't change the fact that there are loads of options in there.

Some people thrive on options, you know.

Post by **GargoyleMT** » 2004-04-02 23:14

WolfmanProper wrote:Some people thrive on options, you know.

But not, generally, users new to a particular program.

If there's a paper about user interface design that says more settings/options is good, I'd be interested, since that seems very counter-intuitive.

WolfmanProper · Post by **WolfmanProper** » 2004-04-16 20:17

GargoyleMT wrote:
WolfmanProper wrote:Some people thrive on options, you know.
But not, generally, users new to a particular program.

If there's a paper about user interface design that says more settings/options is good, I'd be interested, since that seems very counter-intuitive.

There ought, of course, to have been a smiley after my sentence.

But I do like options. The "advanced" label should do its usual job, warning off inexperienced users. And using the tree structure for catogorizing seems necessary now that there are so many options. It's underused as it is.

Post by **GargoyleMT** » 2004-04-17 15:20

A tree, instead of a list? Nice idea.