Wired 2.0 back on tracks... return of feature requests (Page 1 of 5)

i would like to have an overall audio control to trim/switch off volume if i watch a movie or musik with the mac

Tabs has got to be the biggest feature I can think of!  And by tabs, we are talking about one window
with tabs for each connected server, not tabs within a single server window, right?!

I like that new icon you made, but i dont like the idea of having a aperture like interface (opaque black)

http://www.wired.com/images/article/ful … _1000x.jpg

The current interface is nice, but I am all in favor of tabs

Wohoooo. Very nice. Is there an Alpha-Version for test?

I've started work on a new protocol and with that, some major changes in the client. I asked a few users in the community for feedback to guide this development. The screenshots in this thread all represent mockups of desired features.

We're a quite long way from a 2.0 release. What I've done so far is getting the new protocol in place on the server and Wired Client. Today I reached feature compatibility, which means that the new protocol can do everything the old one could, but nothing more. Work will now begin on GUI improvements on the client, and then eventually, new features in the protocol.

There will be a 1.3.3 release in a while that fixes a few outstanding bugs and adds some new minor functionality. This will probably be the last 1.3 release. When that is done, I will start merging 2.0 so that nightlies will be available to you. I hope this will lead to a fruitful development cycle with continous feedback on changes and improvements.

Feel free to continue to discuss your ideas here, and they will be considered for 2.0.

Agreed with spacemonkey.

But I'm sure that morris wouldn't include it. I have to imagine that it'd have the default GUI look of either Tiger or Leopard. Which ever OS your running.
I can also agree that most of the feature enhancements that ju has brought up are good ideas.
Most feature requests I've had I've submitted Trac tickets for. I see it as the best way to do so, but not much chat goes on over there. So another little list of must haves for me would be?
1: The ability to up/down folders, and a limit on folder depth.
2: Threaded News.
3: A welcome message.
4: More details with account information.
5: More details with file searching.
There are many more but let's be reasonable. Perhaps I'll upload some of the features that I've mocked using interface builder?
Desi

Yeah, this is what I did for the Spiral nightlies. Will do the same for 2.0.

Is the group setting for the drop box going to the be same as the groups in accounts? It might be better to have a different setting like "file group." I might want to have admins + co-admins + register users but not guests read a folder.

Last edited by whfsdude (2008-02-28 06:45:28)

That works! Thanks :-)

This should work fine. It creates symlinks, so there shouldn't be any problems linking across filesystems. Are there still problems with cross-volume aliases?

For Wired 1.0-1.3, creation date and modification date have always been the same, since there hasn't been a way to access file creation dates from the API I've used. 10.5 has gained a new API that can deliver this date, and a similar thing exists on other Unixes. I'll see if I can use this.

Edit: That worked, creation dates restored.

Last edited by morris (2008-02-29 07:11:57)

Those screenshots look great, Morris.

I've also got a few feature requests:
1. The ability for admins to see which group a user belongs to in the info panel.
2. The ability for admins to not only see what users are currently downloading and uploading, but also what's in their queue.

Last edited by airwave (2008-03-03 08:19:51)

I think he has Ju. "Create Links" I think means aliases. As he described above they're actually symlinks not typical aliases. morris, it seems that the pervious problems with cross volume aliases is gone. I've not come across any in a while.
Account Info looks good.

But could we include?
1: Name (When connecting to a server the fields read; Address, Login & Password) [Your Name field seems to actually be the Login field]
2: Comment (Something to helps us remember them)
3: Date Created
4: Date Modified
5: Last Login
6: Modified By
To better keep track of the accounts, if it's not asking too much?
Client Side:
Server Side:
Privileges are also looking good.

But could we include?
1: Private Message (To avoid the many same old questions and useless "Hello" messages from guests)
2: Upload Files (To stop users from uploading folders of files with folders of files?) [if possible]
3: Upload Folders (For those users that are reasonable with them) [if possible]
4: Download Files (To stop users from downloading folders of files with folders of files?) [kinda of addressed in the new "Limits/Download Folder Depth". If this is set to 0 I imagine that the user only gets the folder and it's contents right?]
5: Download Folders (Just thought these could be separated.)
6: Cannot Be Kicked (To avoid accidential/unwanted kicks)
7: Protected account/group (To avoid accidential/unwanted account deletion from a user group that can delete accounts but not an account/group higher than theirs)
[Not sure if Accounts/Groups are setup as interchangeable but?]
8: Create Groups (To stop sub admin from creating unwanted groups)
9: Edit Groups  (To stop groups I create from being modified by sub admin)
10: Delete Groups (Same as above)
Limits looks good.
I especially like the Upload limit. Is it possible to have an upload limit on the client side too, even though I don't have a limit I limit myself.
Thanks for the awesome preview. I'm getting excited.
Desi
P.S. I can't seem to find the link to the development Trac? Is it gone?
P.S.S. Some other features I'm not sure I mentioned before that I'd love to see.
1: The ability for trackers to register with trackers. The tracker could only belong to the tracker group. That way users connecting to the default zanka tracker can find more trackers & therefore more servers.
2: I'm not sure how much extra programming is needed but if it's easy could there be plugins to support the viewing of .ai (Abobe Illustrator) .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) files.
3: The ability to see the path of the file being transferred. As well as an E.T.A. on completion
4: The addition of the cap limit information while transferring files both down & up.
5: 4 additions to the client side search.
A: Path To Search (To narrow the search and make it faster)
B: Search Current Path (Same as above just saves typing)
C: Number of Results (To limit the search to the first # of files turned up, again making it faster)
D: Kind Is Not (If possible, to get all other files except those specified)

I'll add more if I think of them.
Thought of another
Now as it stands we can't move items out of parent folders while in column view. Is it possible to do so. On a similar note could we select files to be moved & or aliased and then navigate to the desired location to move the file or create the alias?

Last edited by Desi (2008-03-11 14:44:57)