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[Marcel de Vries <marceldevries@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/10/11 Severin Heiniger <severinheiniger@xxxxxxxxx>:
> too bad that Marcel and Eran don't have Wave accounts yet. I gave it a try
> with Sander and some other colleagues and it turned out to be really fun and
> suitable for group chatter. :-D

I've requested an invitation via Google itself and you invited me. But
I haven't received anything regarding a Google Wave account. Maybe it
has to do with the fact that I use Google Apps for Domains, but I
doubt it.

> As for the "Add file" dialog: Thought this was a subject worth discussing.
> LottaNZB 0.5/HellaNZB situation:
>
> Dialog has a field "Name" plus a "Category" combobox if the corresponding
> plug-in is activated. The "Name" field is made insensitive when multiple
> files are selected.
> Downloads cannot be renamed after being added to the download queue. The
> same for categories.
> When a file is dropped onto the LottaNZB window, the "Add file" dialog is
> opened with the file selected.
>
> Now we've got a new situation. SABnzbd allows downloads to be renamed and
> recategorized at any time. My thoughts about it:
>
> Don't open the "Add file" dialog if a file is dropped over the LottaNZB main
> window. I've never seen a behavior like this in any other application. We
> might think about selecting the newly added download(s) for the user to
> quickly locate it.
>
> For the dialog itself, we have the following possibilities:
>
> Don't display any additional controls and let the user change the name and
> category afterwards (in the download properties window).
> Provide the "Name" etc. fields in the "Add file" dialog. Plug-ins may want
> to add other controls like "Priority" (?) or "Postprocess" (?). However, I
> would suggest to move these into a box whose visibility can be toggled.
> Because not all users make use of this functionality and the dialog looks
> weird if there are more than one additional fields. The dialog could
> remember the visibility state. I attached two screenshots.
> Or is there a better solution? What Transmission does: The "Add file" dialog
> contains a "Show options dialog" checkbox. If activated, a new window will
> open after the "Add" button is clicked where additional properties for the
> download can be set. In fact LottaNZB could directly open the "Download
> properties" dialog, which would probably even be the easiest solution as we
> wouldn't have to duplicate code. I attached a third screenshot for that.
>
> Any thoughts on all of this?

I'd go with the way Transmissions does it. This way you'd create a
more unified system (not sure if it's the right word though). I
haven't much to add except that the checkbox should be toggled by
default.

Regards,
Marcel