Download state in GUI not stable upon add/remove torrent

[VincentKetelaars]

Version 6.2.0

MyChannel allows you to add torrents your are currently downloading/seeding. Later you can remove them again. Both of these actions tend to take several seconds to complete, i.e. to be visualized in the GUI. It would greatly improve user experience if this was reduced to no waiting at all.

Removing torrents can only be done one at a time or all together. The obvious gap is several at once. This could be solved by allowing multiple torrents to be selected.

Adding torrents can also be done only one at a time, although it less cumbersome than removing them. A small dialog which allows selecting several would be a nice improvement.

[NielsZeilemaker]

We'll implement a dialog which allows you to remove multiple at once, and a add multiple thingy.

[VincentKetelaars]

I found that you can remove multiple at once (On my Ubuntu system I merely
have to hold ctrl or shift for that), though a dialog might be more
intuitive.
The thing that annoyed me is that it takes several seconds for the list to
be updated, after either adding or removing.

2014/1/18 NielsZeilemaker [email protected]

We'll implement a dialog which allows you to remove multiple at once, and
a add multiple thingy.

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[NielsZeilemaker]

Unfortunately this isn't really easily solved, as it's due to Dispersy. We have to wait for the feedback of Dispersy that the files are added/removed. This is a really slow async process.

[VincentKetelaars]

I thought it would be something like that. Perhaps you could just add it to
the gui and handle it in the back?

2014/1/18 NielsZeilemaker [email protected]

Unfortunately this isn't really easily solved, as it's due to Dispersy. We
have to wait for the feedback of Dispersy that the files are added/removed.
This is a really slow async process.

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[whirm]

Maybe gray them out in the UI while they are being added/removed in dispersy?

[VincentKetelaars]

That will probably do as well. As long as there is some feedback that
something is actually happening.

2014/1/20 Elric Milon [email protected]

Maybe gray them out in the UI while they are being added/removed in
dispersy?

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[egbertbouman]

@whirm Sounds goods.

[qstokkink]

Managing a lot of downloads is a pain if they take several seconds to have some operation complete (in the GUI). Since credit mining will bring a lot of downloads, I'm moving this up.

[synctext]

Closing this ticket. Long live Gigachannels..

[qstokkink]

This issue is actually about the time it takes between clicking stop in the GUI and the GUI updating the status on a download and not on a channel. As such, it is not resolved.

[qstokkink]

I have updated the title of this issue to reflect the open problem.

[qstokkink]

Tribler now has a web-based front end and this issue is no longer relevant.