Remove the "Follow redirect" button from DC++
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| DC++ |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
As the title says: I suggest you to remove the "Follow redirect" button from DC++.
The reasons:
* The main toolbar mostly contains application-wide controls. There are only two exceptions: the "Follow redirect" and "Reconnect" buttons. I think the toolbar should not have hub-wide and application-wide buttons mixed together because they cause confusion.
* The icon of the "Follow redirect" button doesn't suggest any redirect or follow thing, so it should be redesigned anyway.
* When there's no any redirect to follow (which is almost 100 % the case while using DC++), it's still active, clickable, and it's just an icon which does absolutely nothing useful.
* When the "auto-follow redirects" option is enabled, there's no point to have this icon at all.
* When the "auto-follow redirects" option is disabled, the user sees a message on the main chat to "click the follow last redirect button to go here". Why is he redirected to the toolbar and why should he locate any icons he never used before?
I think the alternate - and a much better - solution would be to have a clickable link in the chat with a text similar to this: "You are redirected to xxxxx because yyyy (only when reason known). Click here to follow redirect or reconnect to connect back to zzzzz" or something.
in rev 2878.