Download Control Adjustments

Description

Minor adjustments to download control - pausing and killing downloads.

Details

Killing Downloads

Killing downloads will now be available with any selection of download, provided that at least one download in the selection can be killed. Only the downloads which can be killed, will actually be killed. This feature has been introduced to allow users to kill a range of downloads, even if some downloads in the selection have already completed, or have completed while the user was making the selection. Frustration in killing downloads should be reduced with this new introduction.

Pausing Downloads

Paused downloads will no longer occupy concurrent download quota. If a set of downloads are paused, they will stay paused, however another set of downloads will be started to fill the download quota. In other words, pausing 3 downloads will no longer stall the entire download process.

Furthermore, upon download resumption, paused downloads will be re-queued into the download queue, instead of being immediately restarted.

This should be an optimal operation procedure, as otherwise a user could pause a large quantity of downloads, then resume them, which would cause all of the downloads to download simultaneously.

Finally, paused downloads will now appear below currently downloading ones, however above queued ones, to preserve the user's field of view of operation, and ease of use.

Potential Problems

Inconsistent bugs have been detected, where downloads duplicate thumbnails or details. Further testing will be performed to find and eliminate these bugs, if possible.