So, most of what I suggested before has gotten implemented, which is GREAT! Thanks so much, it makes Phex that much more useful and easier to work with.

Of course, I do have some other suggestions below... The ones with ** were asked for before, but not implemented and still would be great to have.

ALL tabs: Keep highlighted selection highlighted, and focused in window. E.g., in DOWNLOAD tab, I highlight one or more files, and then sort the list by [any]; currently highlight disappears, all selections should stay highlighted, and also focused in the window, unless the selections span multiple pages [up or down].

General: Ability to change font size and colors, especially for queued files. The current green is a nice color, but too light [sometimes I can't see it if my screen is tilted just slightly back].

SEARCH tab: Need ability to continuously search, or to specify amount of time to search. Current default is much too short. Also to re-search once a new Ultrapeer is connected to.

**DOWNLOAD tab: Need ability to specify, simultaneously for multiple files, 'retry candidate(s)' and 'search'. Perhaps 'retry all candidates' and 'search for all files' buttons. Even better, a default to automatically re-search for files every N minutes which have fewer than X candidates.

DOWNLOAD tab: ability to search for files, much like the fabulous filter mechanism in the SEARCH tab. I have a few hundred files in my queue at any one time, and often find that I have already downloaded a particular version [or close enough] of a file; it'd be nice to be able to find the other versions without paging down a dozen times or more.

SEARCH tab: ability to ignore certain files; for instance, after downloading one version of a file, I want to be able to mark all versions of that file to ignore them. This would be best in the right click menu. Also, along with this, the ability to not just lighten the font of the previously downloaded files, but hide them from the list altogether. Both of these should be options, not defaults.

Other: ability to 'pause [and resume, obviously] ALL downloads' at once. For dialup users, this would be a great thing because sometimes we need to do that to check email, do webbrowsing for a few minutes, etc. Doing these things while downloading is extremely time-consuming, which, for dialup, is saying a LOT.

I like the idea of limiting searches to specific countries, or regions. Since Phex can show the flag of the country I'm connected to, could it then also limit the results to whatever region I specify, or filter out results from one or more particular countries/regions. This could be potentially be implemented in the 'disconnect policy' in the Settings.

**SEARCH tab: ability to filter strings using regular expressions. Currently only able to filter out strings with no whitespace.

Odd bits:
SEARCH tab: does not [and should] stay sorted when switching between searches.
Dragging & dropping in Windows Explorer causes Phex to blink off and on.

And I'd certainly be a willing tester for new versions and such, help out however I can if necessary.

@clampak

First of all I really like to thank you for your nice and detailed feature requests. They are really well thought of and practical solution oriented.

Unfortunatly all the "automated search" or "massive search" requests fall into an area which Phex will not offer in the near future, because of bad experiences we made in the past when Phex and others were doing automated searches and almost caused a network break down doing this. We dont want to burn our fingers with it again and risk to get banned out of the network for it.

Gregor

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Greetings!

First of all, i want to say that phex is an amazing gnutella client!

But there are a few things that i miss, and one that i don't like.... :'(
Things I miss:
*- In the search results, it should be possible to filter the results based on the country where the other client are. It also should be possible to connect to other peers just from you country. (some ISP's in Portugal descriminates the national and international traffic- Fortunately thats not my case ).

*-When searching for music we should have an option to filter based on album, artist... (like limewire)

Things I dislike:
*-In the search, i don't like to have to click in the "new search" button every time i want to make a new seach search. I think that by default it should be always a new search.


By the way, this is my first post in this forum. Hopefully i didn't break any rule, but if i did, sorry!

Best regards!

Hi Manifest0,

Firstoff: Welcome to Phex!

Your ideas sound useful, even though they aren't all easy to do...
searching by track/artist/album quite a bit of work (we need to implement metadata readout, etc.) and making new search the default raises the question where to put "direct connection" and "What's New?".

About filtering by country, you'll have to wait for our main dev to come back
Should be doable, though.

Have fun with Phex!
Arne
PS: How did you find Phex?

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Greetings


In the aur repos... I was looking for a gnutella client that i like (and, i love arch linux, because the aur repository), so i've started trying all the gnutella clients i found in the aur.

Best regards,

Manifest0

p.s.: It's possible to integrate the bitcolider with phex? I'm new to gnutella, and mostly of the files, doesn't have bitzi tickets, and 90% of this files are fakes... :'(

p.p.s.: I've never found a phex user... It's mainly limewire users... Damn!

It's great to know, that Phex is in the Slackware packages!

Having BitCollider in Phex would indeed be great. We'd just need someone to implement it...
That's one more reason, that the Phex Team seeks Java Programmers at the moment: http://wiki.phex.org/Developers_Wanted

Our estimates are, that there are about 6.000 Phex users at the moment.

If you want to see Phex users now (at least one...), just have a look at the Polar Skulk.

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Greetings!

It's not slackware linux, but Arch Linux and here's the aur (ArchLinux User-community Repository) repo.

Arch Linux it's IMHO some kind of an cousin of slackware (with decent packet management), and Gentoo.

Thanks for your advise... i'll try polar skulk in 10 minutes...