On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:12:09AM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:56:39AM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > It is less polished than I would like, > > > but I think it's good enough so you can start working on cleaning up > > > UI. > > COOL! > > Can we have a discussion about how this GUI will work before you guys > start implementing something? :) > > My suggestion is that a splitfile download works just like a normal > download, except we create a new Infolet which will give the status > (using nice tables and colors and stuff for a graphical indication) of > each splitfile download (obviously there may be several occuring > concurrently), and allow the user to abort each of them if they so wish. Um, no. Mainly because there is no chance of fetching the data in any finer granularity than one segment, which is ~ 128MB.
However, there is an option to not bring up the GUI for files below a certain size. Further, I intend to implement a hack that checks the Accept: header, and if image/<anything> is a higher priority than text/<anything>, then we disable the GUI because the browser is asking for an inline image. > > One useful feature might be a warning indicator if, for example, it is a > splitfile with 50% redundancy, and less than 50% of the blocks requested > so-far have been successfully retrieved. Bombe has a nice mockup of his tool on a web page somewhere... > > Also, what is the status of two of the more ambitious features? > > 1) Streaming (which would support a "live" ogg audio broadcast) You mean in terms of full RTSP support, like fish's stuff does? There is precisely no code of that nature in Fred currently. > 2) Reinsertion of chunks which couldn't be downloaded Interesting question... nothing happening with it at the moment... > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03 http://freenetproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021219/0fb7ed39/attachment.pgp>
