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[3.3dev] Chunks on Status screen almost useless.

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Lain_13
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Hi there,

I have some ideas to share. But at first we select any torrent in list and looks at Status page. What we see there?
1. Info block. We can see same info in table above but user can hide this columns. So, nothing special there.
2. Sharing block. Good and useful thing for somebody (not for me, but I believe it's usefull).
3. Chunks... What the hell it is and how I can use it? Is it for meditation only? Almost every torrent client have this two bars but they always useless. Ok, I see white stripes on the top and bottom bars. In first case it means "I don't have some amount of chunks there", in second case "Damn, torrent incomplete!!!"... Which files in torrent affected by this white stripes? I don't know! I even can't imagine which files affected.

I think 1 progressbar on Status page with current downloaded% will be enough for this screen, even more then enough.

But what about chunks? I know one place where ability to see not seeded chunks much more useful. It is Files page. Look how uTorrent authors design they files page. They show graphical progressbar in % column for each file and, also, they add option to show which chunks of this file already downloaded instead of progressbar. As I remember they don't show which parts not seeded but it's not a big deal to add them as red stripes. White -- not downloaded, blue -- downloaded, red -- not seeded.

Isn't it more useful then 2 bars with stripes?


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