File selection dialog needs improvement

[Anders Aagaard]

The file selection dialog when opening a new torrent in qBittorrent 1.0.0beta5 isn't usable with big torrents.

When opening a torrent with over 150gb of data, 304 directories and 7500 files, selecting one and one file in the file selection dialog isn't really efficient.

I switched to ktorrent for that torrent, it's file selection dialog is brilliant (but it's cpu usage is not).

It's a simple tree view with a checkbox for each directory (you can also open directories and select specific files obviusly). This is very efficient.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Why don't you select the files, then right click and then choose their
priority? You don't need to do it one by one. Or maybe I didn't understand
well.

On 9/3/07, Anders Aagaard <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Public bug reported:
>
> The file selection dialog when opening a new torrent in qBittorrent
> 1.0.0beta5 isn't usable with big torrents.
>
> When opening a torrent with over 150gb of data, 304 directories and 7500
> files, selecting one and one file in the file selection dialog isn't
> really efficient.
>
> I switched to ktorrent for that torrent, it's file selection dialog is
> brilliant (but it's cpu usage is not).
>
> It's a simple tree view with a checkbox for each directory (you can also
> open directories and select specific files obviusly). This is very
> efficient.
>
> ** Affects: qbittorrent
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> File selection dialog needs improvement
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136964
> You received this bug notification because you are the bug contact for
> qBittorrent.
>

[Anders Aagaard (aagaande)]

The list is not really easy to work with when there are over 7500 entries.

Ktorrent's approach of a simple treeview with folders included is far more efficient.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Ok. I'll have to check ktorrent out then because I have not tested it yet. If they can do it, I surely do too ;)

[Anders Aagaard (aagaande)]

I just realized another thing, the rightclick menu in that selection only has the priorities normal/high/maximum. Not ignored. So right clicking when selecting multiple files does not work.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Anders, it has ignored action, unless you select ALL the files. Indeed, you
can't ignore all the files in a torrent. You the second person to tell me
this, I think I will always display the ignore action and just check if it
is correct on properties exit, just before saving.

On 9/4/07, Anders Aagaard <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I just realized another thing, the rightclick menu in that selection
> only has the priorities normal/high/maximum. Not ignored. So right
> clicking when selecting multiple files does not work.
>
> --
> File selection dialog needs improvement
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136964
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>

[Anders Aagaard (aagaande)]

This is what you get for writing software too clever ;), I just marked everything to test.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

I'm working on it in new-file-selection branch. I hope I can get it done for beta7 (to be released this week end probably)

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Ok. I' now merging it in trunk. It will need more testing but it looks like it is working.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Beta7 is out.