i've another suggestion!

How about blocking a file based on the SHA1 sum.

Most of the internet users have dynamic IP's so, IMHO, blocking an IP isn't very efficient (comparing to the SHA1 blocking).

Also when blocking an IP instead of having a fixed time limite, an dynamic time limit would be nice (example: blocking an IP for 7 days should mean if in the next 7 days there isn't no hit the IP should be unblocked. If there's a hit in that time period should be extended).

Greetings!

You can do that manually at the moment through the filter-system, but it isn't very easy to do.

But it also wouldn't accomplish that much, because spammers partly use files with bogus sha1 keys.

With dynamic blocking: How can you determine, that the one hit wasn't an actual hit?

Apart from that, the idea seems good to me, though I don't know how easy or hard it is to accomplish it.

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I also would appreciate a notification system, that indicates to the user when something has changed (like a finished search, or a complete download).

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What do you mean with an icon for your desktop? A menu entry? A shortcut?
I suppose you want a .desktop file:
1- Open a text editor an write something like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=3.2.0.102
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=phex
Comment=Free file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network.
Exec=java -jar /path/to/phex.jar
Icon=/PATH/TO/ICON
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network
StartupNotify=true

3- save the file with name phex.desktop
4- place the file in your desktop folder and you will have a nice shortcut in your desktop
5- for a menu entry you have to look in the internet. (you have to put those .desktop file in some specific location)

btw, you've edited my quote... :P

LOL....sorry about that

What I mean about "icon" is a simple small picture/image normally in PNG format (or SVG) that is used to identify an app... and usually has some kind of picture that identifies the with the app...(in this cas a "kind of fox"

Regards

Luis

well... You can use this image: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/images/phex-gf.png and resize it.

I hope it works for you! :P

You could also choose among these ones (from our iconsets):

https://phex.svn.sourceforge.net/svn...esources/icons

Sadly we only have the OSX icon as .icns file

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For example:
https://phex.svn.sourceforge.net/svn...x/phex_wiz.gif

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that's exactly the one I downloaded ..

Kind Regards

Luis

I've noticed a few times when I'm queued for a download, I'm sitting in position 1 and the software is counting down the seconds to "retry the connection." What happens next is that it says, "Connecting..." then "Host busy." This seems a bit like getting to the front of the queue for a really busy night club, then getting out of the queue to walk away somewhere and ask a bouncer if you can get in, only to be told "queue up like everyone else." You almost invariably lose your place in the queue and, if the host is busy enough, you lose your chance to connect at all. Is this auto-retry an essential component to the network's operation, or can Phex be made to just quietly assume that it'll get to download the file when the host is ready?