[Libtorrent-devel] rtorrent wishlist

[\"Denilson F. de S\"á]

Hello, I've found rtorrent and I think it is a great software. However, I  
have some suggestions I think will make it better.

First, and most important, please use some web-based bug-tracking system  
(like sourceforge or bugzilla). Requiring *any* user to subscribe this  
list JUST to contact rtorrent developers is not a nice thing.

Well, I'm a bit used to "cplay" [1] program and its simple but intuitive  
interface. I really would like that rtorrent had an interface as simple to  
use as it. Ok, this suggestion is a bit subjective, but there are some  
things that could be improved:

- Home/End/PageUp/PageDown SHOULD work. When you have a torrent with  
hundreds of files (like these [2]), you will understand why I ask this.

- A simple search would be very welcome too. (cplay has search too, very  
handy and simple to use)

- In general, a more intuitive interface, with built-in help. For example,  
we can use cplay without reading a manpage, because the built-in help is  
enough. The same could apply to rtorrent, with help screens explaining  
what we can do on each screen, and how.

<cplay comparison stops here>

I have one more suggestion. When I want to download just a few files from  
a torrent, I don't want ALL files created on disk. Get one of the torrents  
listed at [2] and try to download just one or a few musics.

I don't know how difficult it could be, but maybe rtorrent could keep a  
"temp" directory with all files and data rtorrent needs, but the user does  
not want have/see. Then, only "selected" files would go to final  
directory. This would avoid (or hide) hundreds of empty files and a few  
incomplete that were created when I tried to download just some of the  
music from [2].

Thank you for your time. I hope you like my suggestions. I first posted  
them at [3].

Please reply to me; I entered this list just to send this message, I'm  
leaving now.

[1] http://mask.tf.hut.fi/~flu/hacks/cplay/
[2] http://bt.ocremix.org/
[3] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3193291.html#3193291

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Denilson F. de Sá
UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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