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hopalong
June 27th, 2009, 10:47 AM
that the good old LW 4 features are coming back:

Stop Search, Repeat Search, Find More Results menu items,

Filtering,

Browse Hosts results between the search tabs

Some missing items:
PgDn/PgUp doesn't work yet.

When a column is narrow to contain the column name, you abridge the name and put 3 dots. For example: Track Tra... Tr... T... ... .. - instead of ... and .. please retain T and one or two dots.
You could give bubble help to the column names.

In search results please make the IP address viewable and sortable as a new (additive) selectable search result column. (Even you are saying in Wik:i Public Sharing list and sharing anonymously with the world: ... , rather they recognize the IP Address of your computer. File sharing programs communicate to other file sharing programs using a computer's IP Address. )
In this way you can retain and show the translated IP address "to people who ring alarm bells" - as Sam said (http://forum.limewire.org/showpost.php?p=22474&postcount=11).

Good to see that the sidebar and the marginal friend feature has gone into the background.
Because you left room right to the Library, Friend Login, Limewire Store button, please place here an Upload button, and remove the Upload menu item from the Tools menu. For me, and I think for most of the LW users the Search, Download and Upload the most important, and have to reach all three very easy, with one click.
Why can't we see the search results and uploads together, just like search results and downloads?

I like, that I can copy all field on the file Properties window.

In Public Shared list why don't you give a name to the last column containing x, for example "Remove ...".

Seeing the LW player disturbs me in Library when LW player is not selected in Options.

meverett
June 27th, 2009, 04:36 PM
Glad you're liking to redesign.

Just a few comments

- Uploads will be moved out of the menu. Not sure where yet but might have to wait till the 5.3 release. One idea that has been thrown around is to put it in a tab in the download tray so you could toggle between downloads/uploads

- Not sure why the remove column isn't named remove

- I like the idea of hiding the media player if it isn't selected in Options. We'll have to talk about that next week.

Lord of the Rings
July 11th, 2009, 03:06 AM
I reiterate hopalong's concerns! :)

For 'some' of us, the upload window is an extremely important function of the program. At present it is not conveniently accessible, with most other alternate options/actions making the upload window disappear which is highly annoying. LW no longer even shows a brief summary at bottom of screen if you are uploading & to how many hosts or at what bandwidth. ie: we can be uploading & not have a clue about it. I've found that issue since I started with the first LW 5 alpha back in December 2008. Oops second I mean since I was unable to connect with the first one. lol :D

There are 'serious' p2p sharers out there. I know you wish to please the quick come & get what they wish ... to help maintain market share, but for us who are 'serious' about p2p sharing, we have been crying out for the advanced features to be returned back to LW from LW 4, as well as improvements, & additions.

Sam
July 13th, 2009, 04:34 AM
I hope you can see, LOTR, that LW 5.2 is much better than LW 5.0 & 5.1 in terms of features & various things people complained about. Uploads will be improved, in time, too.

Lord of the Rings
July 16th, 2009, 08:51 AM
I've definitely seen the improvements in LW 5.2.x .. so much better than 5.1 in so many ways. :)

But it seems a long time coming to put attention to areas that should have been worked on before LW 5 was released. I know .. I'm a PITA continually complaining & pushing the pen up in the wrong place lol, but I'd have thought these things would have been done a lot sooner, and without putting any issues/user problems on the general user (or limiting their abilities!)

Even drop-down menus in meantime until you 'decide' where such things should go, but give back options that were in LW 4, make the general user happy. Instead of 'new' users deciding LW 4 is better than LW 5.

I don't mind personally, more of the network for all of us (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/download-upload-problems/92423-downgrading-limewire-4-5-resuming-incomplete-downloads.html).