Post by MEL » Mon Nov 21, 2022 8:47 pm
Guest wrote:I'm thrilled that the
Sort By Status was reinstated. However, this feature still works better in FDM 5, where currently downloading items have priority over queued items. In FDM 6 is the other way around: Queued items appear first.. but why?
Alex wrote:Well, users never told us about the exact order of Status column sorting... For me, I never use it and do not understand what it can be useful for.
Thanks for answering Alex.. But why not make it the way it was in FDM 5? it was already working great.. that was not a broken feature.
For me the usefulness of Sort By Status is obvious. And the only possible way to order things by default. We would want currently "downloading" files at the top, then "queued" or "paused" files in second/third, and then "downloaded" files after. It seems to me like the natural order of things. At some point there would only be "downloaded" files when all jobs are completed. But by having priority first over "downloading", and then for "queued" or "paused" after that, we would always know at the top we have jobs currently in progress, or pending jobs. I don't particularly see the usefulness of other ways of sorting, unless of course, to find specific files by name or date. Anyway. I appreciate your consideration.
Guest wrote:Enable/disable seeding
Alex wrote:It was not removed, it was redesigned. For example, you can still use it by hovering mouse over download's speed column.
But then it has to be applied individually, doesn't it?..
The way it was before in FDM5, we could select several files and apply to enable or disable seeding.
Guest wrote:Alex wrote:Force reannounce
Will be added in the next update.
Great!
[quote="Guest"]I'm thrilled that the [b]Sort By Status[/b] was reinstated. However, this feature still works better in FDM 5, where currently downloading items have priority over queued items. In FDM 6 is the other way around: Queued items appear first.. but why?
[quote="Alex"]Well, users never told us about the exact order of Status column sorting... For me, I never use it and do not understand what it can be useful for.[/quote][/quote]
Thanks for answering Alex.. But why not make it the way it was in FDM 5? it was already working great.. that was not a broken feature.
For me the usefulness of Sort By Status is obvious. And the only possible way to order things by default. We would want currently "downloading" files at the top, then "queued" or "paused" files in second/third, and then "downloaded" files after. It seems to me like the natural order of things. At some point there would only be "downloaded" files when all jobs are completed. But by having priority first over "downloading", and then for "queued" or "paused" after that, we would always know at the top we have jobs currently in progress, or pending jobs. I don't particularly see the usefulness of other ways of sorting, unless of course, to find specific files by name or date. Anyway. I appreciate your consideration.
[quote="Guest"]Enable/disable seeding
[quote="Alex"]It was not removed, it was redesigned. For example, you can still use it by hovering mouse over download's speed column.[/quote][/quote]
But then it has to be applied individually, doesn't it?..
The way it was before in FDM5, we could select several files and apply to enable or disable seeding.
[quote="Guest"][quote="Alex"]Force reannounce[/quote]
Will be added in the next update.[/quote]
Great!
