1.0.0_RC9 (0.9.09) Released

[andar]

Is the GTk GUI final ? It's a bit "clunky"...

It could appear to be 'clunky' from an interactivity stand-point due to the CPU spike bug.

[Drako60]

Deluge is not properly writing out the pieces downloading.

I had a torrent which was at around 37% complete, and i accidently killed deluged and when i restarted it, it only at 3.7% complete, i've also had this happen with previous svn versions, pre RC, and had it happen on forced rechecks as well as crashes.

I have a hunch this is also where the CPU spike bug is but i'm not entirely sure as i haven't been able to track the problem down

[Nanobot]

Deluge is not properly writing out the pieces downloading.

I had a torrent which was at around 37% complete, and i accidently killed deluged and when i restarted it, it only at 3.7% complete, i've also had this happen with previous svn versions, pre RC, and had it happen on forced rechecks as well as crashes.

I have a hunch this is also where the CPU spike bug is but i'm not entirely sure as i haven't been able to track the problem down

I've had the same issue (although the difference wasn't necessarily a factor of 10). I had a torrent that was above 90%, and when I restarted Deluge normally, it went back to something like 30%. This was a big torrent, and that's a lot of time lost. I've noticed that all active torrents seem to lose a significant chunk of data every time I need to close Deluge and reopened it.

On an unrelated issue, I wish the dialog would be simpler when adding a torrent via file association. The process used to be this:

1. Click on a torrent link in Firefox.
2. I see the file browser dialog to choose a directory.
3. Once a directory is chosen, there's nothing else to do; the torrent just starts.

Now, this is the process:

1. Click on a torrent link in Firefox.
2. I see a complex dialog box in front of me with lots of options I don't care about.
3. I click on the Options tab.
4. Click on the "Download Location" drop-down.
5. Click on "Other".
6. Select my download directory.
7. Once the directory is chosen, I still have to click the "Add" button in the other dialog.

These kinds of up-front settings could be available as an option for power users, but I imagine that all most people care about is telling Deluge where to download the files to (if even that). At least in Classic mode, I'd like to see the process simplified to what we had before.

In my case, I usually add torrents one of two ways: clicking on a torrent link in Firefox, in which case I want to choose the download location manually; and via the "auto add folder" mechanism, where a separate service puts torrents there and they just download to the default location.

[Major_Kong]

Is the GTk GUI final ? It's a bit "clunky"...

It could appear to be 'clunky' from an interactivity stand-point due to the CPU spike bug.

It's not the CPU spike bug. The GUI, at least in my opinion, is a step back from the 0.5.x series.

1. Click on a torrent link in Firefox.
2. I see a complex dialog box in front of me with lots of options I don't care about.
3. I click on the Options tab.
4. Click on the "Download Location" drop-down.
5. Click on "Other".
6. Select my download directory.
7. Once the directory is chosen, I still have to click the "Add" button in the other dialog.

These kinds of up-front settings could be available as an option for power users, but I imagine that all most people care about is telling Deluge where to download the files to (if even that). At least in Classic mode, I'd like to see the process simplified to what we had before.

X2.

Even power users don't need these options most of the time.

[loki]

There's a way to turn that off, the add torrents dialogue in the downloads section.
I like to see it because it gives me a chance to select specific files if I don't want to download all of it, before the torrent starts... which is a better time to select them rather than wait until it's started and have it already downloading a chunk of a file I don't want.

[Major_Kong]

There's a way to turn that off, the add torrents dialogue in the downloads section.
I like to see it because it gives me a chance to select specific files if I don't want to download all of it, before the torrent starts... which is a better time to select them rather than wait until it's started and have it already downloading a chunk of a file I don't want.

But that just turns off the "add dialog", i like to choose manually where to download, i think i'm not alone on this one, and as you said choose the files i want from the start. I just think the dialog should be simplier by default, and more "complex" by choice.
As it stands you're either a power user, or you can't be bothered by anything, it's not a fair compromise.

[chiron]

I really don't like the 'small icons, no text' option set for the toolbar by default, and the fact that isn't adjustable from the interface preferences is even worse. It feels very "limiting", doesn't obey my System - Preferences - Appearances default option, and I'm not able to adjust it.

The toolbar is manually set to use only the icons in a glade file (XML UI markup). With the Ubuntu package, it is located at /usr/share/python-support/deluge-torrent/deluge/ui/gtkui/glade/main_window.glade

You can change it manually using Glade, or (for 1.0.0_RC3 at least, I don't see why it wouldn't work for other versions) this command should manage to strip out the offending line in the glade file. Other distros may have the file in another location. It works for me on Ubuntu 8.04 - no guarantees, though.

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sudo sed -i.orig -e 's|<property name="toolbar_style">GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS</property>||' /usr/share/python-support/deluge-torrent/deluge/ui/gtkui/glade/main_window.glade

If something goes terribly wrong, this command should make a backup of the original at /usr/share/python-support/deluge-torrent/deluge/ui/gtkui/glade/main_window.glade.orig

Disclaimer: I am not a developer for Deluge, I'm just poking around.

[Nanobot]

I want to emphasize the download resume bug again. I've been trying to download one particular torrent for four days now. It just so happens that we've been having a lot of power outages lately, on average about once a day. Over the course of the last four days, the torrent progress has gone from 30% to 60% and then back to 30% three or four times now. Every time there's a power outage, I lose a full day's worth of progress, amounting to a total of zero progress in four days. I don't see how 1.0.0 can possibly be released with this kind of bug.

[perfectska04]

Hi, I've been using Deluge since it's early stages, and I've always been quite pleased with it. I just registered to mention some usability regressions in the latest development version (1.0 RC3), which have made my experience with Deluge a bit less pleasant, and hopefully someone can address them or at least keep them under consideration.

1. When right clicking a torrent, focus is no longer given to the right-clicked item, instead, focus is given to a previously selected item. This is considerably annoying, since usually you right click a torrent and choose to pause/resume/delete, but you'd be doing it to the wrong torrent if you don't pay attention. Now I have to click on the desired torrent, and THEN right click on it, which makes it a regression.

2. The configuration wizard is no longer included. This makes it more difficult to configure Deluge.

3. If you choose to hide the "Labels" sidebar, it will still appear after exiting/reopening Deluge. It does not remember being hidden.

4. Previous versions of Deluge included an option to only hide the "Add Torrents Dialog" if the torrent only contained one file. This was more versatile than the current behaviour, which is all or nothing.

5. Deluge keeps making a "torrents" folder in my home folder. I already specified that I do not want copies of .torrent files, but it still does it. Maybe at least name the folder ".torrents"? at least this way it would be hidden from view.

6. The new features such as "Daemon" and "Classic/New interface" are confusing. There needs to be better documentation, or at least more intuitive information about them.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so forgive me if it isn't, but Deluge is one of my must-have software, and hopefully the developers will at least take this into consideration.

[loki]

Seems like the right place to post it, most of those issues have already been discussed. It is also a good idea to list your operating system when posting certain things.