Recent changes to feature-requests

#31 zip|iso contents preview and selective download

Michael Tunnell — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:30:34 -0000

you can do this already with default tools in most distros.

This is not a straight forward process but it is certainly possible.

Start a download...let it download 1-5MB (you don't need much for this)
Pause the download
Open your file manager (Ubuntu uses Nautilus) and navigate to the downloading file.
Lets say the file is "awesome-stuff-i-want.zip", you will also see a "download temp" file labeled as "awesome-stuff-i-want.zip_ug" or "awesome-stuff-i-want.zip_aria2" (if you use the aria2 plugin).
Make a copy of that file and paste it into the same folder which in Ubuntu results with "awesome-stuff-i-want (copy).zip_ug"
Rename that file to something like "awesome-stuff-i-want-peak.zip". It doesn't matter what you name it really as long as you remove the "_ug" or "_aria2" part but making sure you don't rename it the same as the original file as it will overwrite it and we don't want that.
Double Click the new "peak" file to open it in the "Archive Manager".
The archive (zip) will open up and display the contents of the file. You can't extract this of course as it doesn't have all the content but it does work to let you see into the zip before it is fully downloaded.
Once you are satisfied that this file is what you want, delete the peak file and go back to uGet and resume it to finish downloading.

#23 Add possibility to physically move files

Michael Tunnell — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:21:31 -0000

this has been discussed but we do not have any kind of roadmap for this. The issue is that it doesn't solve much of an issue because File Managers are much more apt to do this.

#16 Extra command line options

Michael Tunnell — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:18:27 -0000

interesting idea, we'll look into that.

#27 Make Download Dialog Window Less Verbose

Michael Tunnell — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:11:59 -0000

I disagree with this...a lot of people are afraid of "Advanced" tabs so hiding everything would be a mistake for them as they may never even look.

I think it would be cool for an option hide elements if a user wants but to make it default, I don't agree.

Settings -> Minimalist Interface -> Default hides a lot...but what would be cool is the option to hide what you want. For example, I almost always want my downloads to be runnable and I almost never use the login options so I could choose to hide those. That would be awesome.

zip|iso contents preview and selective download

eadmaster — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:52:57 -0000

a great bandwidth saver!

Global download rate limit

toal193 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:03:11 -0000

The latest stable release of uGet (1.8.0) only support per download transfer rate limit, not a global one.

timestamp option

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:04:43 -0000

It would be nice to have an option (either globally or per download) to store the file timestamp with the choice of completed time or remote server time.

GUI option for user-agent string

Žarko Živanov — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:54:46 -0000

Since there are sites that allow only some programs to access their content, it would be nice to add a GUI option to advanced section in the new download dialog to set the user-agent string (I know that there is a command line option for this). This option is practically the only reason that I'm still using old and not maintained d4x.

Make Download Dialog Window Less Verbose

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:07:59 -0000

Hello, I really like Uget and I use it daily with Chromium. I have a suggestion: Please make the download dialog window less verbose as there lots of options which are shown. Only the file name and download location should be shown by default and all other option can go to advanced tab or under an expander. Hope you get the idea.

Bypass scheduler

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:01:39 -0000

Force start function to bypass scheduler restrictions for individual downloads. This way downloads can be scheduled for later, while new downloads can be allowed to start immediately.