[freenet-support] Some things the users want

[Matthew Toseland]

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 16:45, Clément wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have opened a subject on what the users don't like on freenet (on the
> usability pov), and for now, there are two answers :

The below are more than two. :)
> 
> -The directory Freenet is not well ordered, configs, logs, libs and
> binary are in the same dir. A more clearer hierarchy would be a good thing.

True, but it doesn't affect the average user.

> -Don't have persistent storage for the stuff like fms/frost keys.

Uh?

> -Really persistant downloads. The user is connected with
> darknet+opennet, so there are often new peers who don't have the
> previously fetched chunks in their datastore, and you have to
> re-download the already downloaded chunks. An on-disk storage would be
> great.

In progress. High priority job for 0.7.1.

> -The freenet.ini file could contain all parameters and have some
> comments, so we could edit it on headless machines.

Keeping the documentation up to date in the presence of user comments would be 
very messy. And 99% of users don't edit freenet.ini and don't use headless 
machines.

> -DDA doesn't work on MacOS. (I'll ask the user to do a bug report).

Please do so.
> 
> -Show the networkSizeEstimateSession even in the simple mode.

File a bug.

> -What is the "connectivity" page for ? (it seems to confuse a lot of
> user...) Is it usefull ?

For showing info about the node's IP connectivity? In non-advanced mode we 
don't show the tables...

> -In the "queue" page, we can insert a file, why can't we donwload a
> file too from this page, but only from the homepage ?

Good question. File a bug.

> -A tray icon which shows the current state of the node and some other
> infos.

A tray icon is a good idea, we already have a bug for it.
> 
> That's all for now, if some other answer show up, I'll post them here.
> 
> I know that all those things aren't usefull, but some might be.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dieppe.
> 
> PS : both users are quite advanced users.
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