Where relevant transmission should use "unlimited" rather than "0"

[David Nielsen]

Binary package hint: transmission

There are several places in the transmission interface where 0 implies unlimited such as all the speed limiting settings. It would be nice if these instances were replaced for greater clarity.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 23 17:06:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/transmission
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: transmission-gtk 1.80~b1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
SourcePackage: transmission
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic x86_64

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Could you please list the places where you feel Transmission should use "unlimited" rather than "0"? I haven't made a complete inspection of the GUI for this issue, but after skimming through it I don't see where it's applicable.

[David Nielsen (davidnielsen-deactivatedaccount)]

Edit->Preferences then go to the Speed tab.

For every "limitation" entry 0 implies unlimited not 0KB/s (no download). This is both confusing and it also removes the option to define a scenerio such as "Don't download but upload at xx KB/s".

So for these you should have the option of setting "none" as well as "unlimited"

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

In Edit > Preferences > Speed, "0" means "none". Unchecking the checkbox to the left is what you'd use to have unlimited speeds. This may have been confusing because of a recent regression in Transmission that doesn't honor a 0 speed limit. That issue is covered by bug 473652.

Are there other places you have in mind?