Lets Kill The Horns!
I've been using the latest jdownloader beta for the last months, and so far, I like it very much and I haven't looked back to v1. But there are three things that I feel should be changed/improved and I would like to comment them here.
“The Horn” control: I'm referring to the strange designed control that has a triangle, a square and another triangle, this one for reference: i.imgur.com/SUa7vIF.png
This control has two main problems: first, why are the two extremes so small? They are very difficult to target with the mouse, and to make it worst, they have the most used functions of the three ones. They should be much wider, like the center.
Second would be the center. What are the chances that I would like to clear the download links that often to warrant the only direct action on the control to be it? Almost none. And not only that, it is the most dangerous action, and probably the least used, and still, it is the biggest, most prominent, direct one. What would be more useful? Clear finished downloads, or clear finished packets.
I believe it needs to be rethink into something like this i.imgur.com/wmKCUaj.png or even scrapped all together for something more standard.
The Context Menus. Maybe I use jdownloader differently than most, but the previous version context menu was much more logically arranged.
For me at least, the most used options on the context menus are:
Resume/Reset.
Disable/Enable
Check Online status.
Set priority.
Move into new package (by the way, this doesn't works at all).
Rename.
Copy URLs (now you have to go through like 3 clicks to get to it).
Of all, Only Disable/Enable is at the firs level. All the rest you have to go to a sub menu. Meanwhile, delete, which is a dangerous operation, is on the firs context menu. I don't know if you already do, but maybe you can collect menus/submenus information and send weekly for analysis, and use that to define the most used ones.
I know there is now a very powerful menus/submenus editor, but I'm sure you know that defaults are what matters most.
Last, but not least, it would be great to have a way to (1), program when to start/stop downloading in advance (for example, I want to start downloading a 11PM and stop at 7AM) and (2) control the bandwidth used, so that I can say to download at 2MB from 10PM to 6AM, but to download at 1MB the rest of the day. Both option I was able to do on v1.
My humble 2 cents.
Last edited by kwanbis; 01.03.2014 at 19:35.
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