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				April 27th, 2003
			
			
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  |   | Gnutella Jewel |  |  Join Date: October 18th, 2002 Location: UK 
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  |   Assorted feature requests 
  Currently using LimeWire client 2.9.8 with no major problems, just a few niggles.
 I've found that for hard-to-get files, I need to periodically repeat the searches done to initially find them to uncover more sources.  Normally I just leave the searches 'open' and 'repeat search' perhaps once per day or when I notice a download has stalled.  Useful UI improvements to assist this activity would be:
 
 - A 'repeat all searches' menu item.
 - A 'search for more sources' option when right-clicking in the downloads pane.
 
 The second niggle I have is this;  when not using the machine I'm happy for it to use a much upload bandwidth as it can.  However, before doing any work myself I really need to restrict the 'upload bandwidth' to 75% or so.  A simple UI method to toggle between user-defined  'machine in use' and 'machine idle' settings would be handy.  Better still would be if the app could switch itself back to the idle state automatically, but I accept this could be more effort than its worth.
 
 The only other feature I'd like is perhaps a step away from the prefered design philosophy;  I'd like to be able to mark items in my local library as high or low priority.  Most requests I see queued are for a small set of files.  I'd like to be able to encourage the downloading of the less popular files - as it is they so rarely get a chance to propogate that they cannot establish a wide enough presence to become avialable.  Not sure if boosting the propogation of 'rare' files would in general be a good or bad thing for the network, but I'd like to be able to do it for specific cases.
 
 Good product, kudos to the developers.
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