That's fine for me personally.

Keep in mind that if MW is closed to dock, there is no way to quit the program. The Quit command simply gets stuck in a loop. There is also no way to get MW gui to show. That makes it very different to the hide command.

The only way I was able to quit the program was using the force quit command using a utility.

This does need to be improved. Potentially needing macos specific commands. Unless you switch the quit and exit commands. (Presently the exit option is only available on the gui.)

Also the program's active name shows up as Launcher (not referring to the Dock.)

Actually what happens is MW takes a very long time to shutdown sometimes up to 2 minutes. I've made some changes in git to significantly speed that up, the next version should take no more than a few seconds.


Unfortunately after Command-Q has been pressed I cannot show any more windows, so I can't display the "MuWire is closing please wait" dialog.

MuWire 0.5.5 is out. It contains many of your suggestions LOTR as well as several important fixes. Shutdown is immediate and works when hiding the app in MacOS as well.


Full changelog:
Core:
* Fix a serious bug in piece size calculation. Re-sharing required
* Upload slots management
* Faster shutdown
* Fix re-sharing of a file inside a shared folder upon restart
* Stricter checking of results and headers

GUI & CLI:
* Do not clear uploads automatically by default
* Show upload speed
* Show search hit counts and downloader counts per file
* Show how many times you’ve been browsed
* Better close prompt on Windows and Mac

Shutdown is just 3 or 4 seconds or so. That's a dramatic improvement. Now I can shutdown immediately. Likewise closing to the tray (Dock) the quit is fast. I guess it's not important but the hide/show command simply lists the Launcher in the menu bar but no gui.

Description for options to close is fine.

Still getting the same netshare 0.52 version downloading each time I re-open MW.

I am not sure about the re-sharing of folder contents because I decided to remove and re-add via selected files.

Extremely happy to see the upload slot options.

Lots of programs default to system drive and user account. I personally don't use the system drive for anything other than the system and apps, etc. An approach I've used for about 20 years (with odd exceptions).
To access the other drives I need to get to root and find volumes. This was relatively easy to do from my first use of MW. But it might confuse some MacOS users who may have alternative drives (yeah I realise most mac users these days use single drive devices such as MacBooks, etc. but some may also use external storages.) I just thought I might bring that point up that the menu system does not have an option to show volumes using a button. Or am I missing something. It's not dramatically important.

I had noticed a few programs where development began on Linux were either difficult or impossible to find a way to use an alternative drive for working with their output files.

But as I suggested this is a very minor thing for MW, the option to find volumes exists.

This puzzles me. Really shouldn't happen.


This is most probably due to the fact that OSX defaults to a "nimbus" look-and-feel, which you can change in the options. Reason for that is that otherwise the initial file chooser that asks where to store downloaded files doesn't show. That is a java bug, and the only workaround I found was to switch the look and feel.


If you want to try the Mac look-and-feel change "nimbus" to "system" and restart. Note that some things may not look very pretty, at least the close button on the search tabs looks weird.

Mine was set to "metal". Certainly looks different set to "system" but the file/directory chooser is even more basic and with less directory options. So does not solve the issue. The upload/library showed arrows which is a fraction clearer when Tree mode is used. Mine might have been set to "metal" by default due to Apple's java 6 jdk being the default java.

By the way (1) what is the standard KB/s overhead for running MW?
(2) what is the typical upload and/or download overhead?

On my Mac (Mojave 10.14.6 + Java 8) the directory choosers do not open at all, in fact they crash the gui. That is unfortunate because I would love to switch the default look-and-feel on Mac to "system"




The bundles available for download on muwire.com come with their own java which is version 11. MW wouldn't work on java 6 at all.



I don't really know, but there is overhead with encryption and padding. In addition, I2P routes traffic on behalf of other users, that's how it achieves anonymity. But whatever the overhead, the total BW at system level should not exceed the bandwidth limits set in the options.

I attempted to switch to nimbus but up came aqua instead after a restart. Then after changing and returning to settings to check the difference before a restart mw froze with settings window open.

There's no listing on MW to show java version.

Standard overhead appears to be quite high but I won't specify. Peaks/spikes appear to go higher than settings. At least that's how it appears.