hi all, good to see another changelog and beta to play with.
et voilą--FWIW--I disabled UP and the official beta 4.1.5 did connect as a leaf, but a bit more slowly. Went back to UP, which connected quickly as usual. However, no BearShare peers connected which is usual here.
The only connection oddity noted is that Quality = "Turbocharged" took much longer than usual (~5 minutes into the startup, and about 4 minutes after an incoming peer connected. Incoming leafs usually show up after the first minute.
Anyway, here are various notes on the beta--sorry I don't have time to organize them better.
Sam, could you explain more about What the "QRP Empty" column tells? I'm wondering if it's a way to get a feel for who is sharing/ freeloading. With the great growth in the network over the past few months, I expect to see more freeloaders (new users getting started). Sometimes the column is blank, as in the #4 (LimeWire/4.0.7) example
1. Leaf LimeWire/4.0.7 2:46:44 1.37% / 64KB 413 / 1023
2. Leaf morph410 4.1.1.252 (GnucDNA 1.0.2.6) 2:47:37 0.18% / 64KB 901 / 1016
3. Leaf giFT-Gnutella/0.0.10-cvs 2:48:33 0.37% / 512KB 6466 / 8189
4. Leaf LimeWire/4.0.7 2:49:06 0% / 0KB
5. Leaf LimeWire/4.0.5 (Pro) 2:49:13 5.89% / 64KB 17 / 1024
6. Leaf LimeWire/4.0.7 2:50:40 0% / 64KB 891 / 893
7. Leaf LimeWire/4.0.6 2:50:46 0% / 64KB 891 / 893
8. Leaf LimeWire/4.0.8 2:50:47 15.38% / 64KB 0 / 1024
I'm still exploring the keyboard changes such as the copy/paste additions, and quite like what I find. Any chance that copying an array can also add the column headers as a first row? This would help reduce screenshot clutter in the forum
One oddity is that results separate nicely when pasted into a spreadsheet, but paste as a single object into TextEdit unless the document is made plain text. Java/platform behaviour?
Using the delete key to clear download entries is excellent--could it be extended to the Monitor entries too?
The warning message before deleting a file in the library is VERY welcome--thanks!--but calling up the dialog the first time spins the beach ball while the HD thrashes away for 10 or so seconds. This used to be a similar problem with other dialogs/windows such as choosing "About", but that one now opens much better.
Will Susheel Daswani be moving to the "former" category in the "About" credits? I noted that he's thanked as a former employee on the team web page. I'll miss reading his posts: had to learn to read them twice to enjoy the irreverence.
Small (e.g., 47k) quick downloads were faster than stats would report. Tooltips showed 0 time and 0 KB/s.
A table of keyboard shortcuts would also be a welcome addition to the Help menu, or TOTD.
Speaking of TOTD, the "Did You Know? Thank you for supporting LimeWire! We hope you enjoy LimeWire Pro." message might make more sense if it showed "Did You Know? LimeWire's development is mostly supported by Pro subscriptions! We hope you enjoy your LimeWire Pro and help spread the word."
A specific searching for content that is likely to have multiple sources looks good, and the results filter and sort quite quickly and smoothly (checked by searching for results for this month's version of "serial box mm.yyyy"). A search for "limewire" still triggers too many spurious results (1221/1,361 were .mp3's). "Rare" searches, though, have been disappointing recently (checked by searching for the latest ".#jum###) . No results were found searching for '5jum350', but the magnet worked. Is this related to Greg Bildson's comments on the GDF that "rare" file searching might be getting less effective as the network grows?
For magnets, The Alfie_Zappacosta_Start_Again.mp3 from magnetmix worked just fine (av dl speed from 3 hosts 161 KB/s, 260KB/s peak), and it smootlhly went to iTunes.
With iTunes integration, the other computer's iTunes playlist "LimeWire" showed the fresh download, so that part worked well here. I don't understand the iTunes Library->Shared Music very well though: I see a LimeWire playlist and also a "What's New" nested under a playlist called "stief's LimeWire" in iTunes and wondered if it's supposed to draw from the LW "What's New"? Gonna have to look more closely at whether I'm causing a recursion problem by sharing my Music folder in LimeWire, and setting iTunes for sharing too. Still, the "What's New" hints at something seriously cool for music lovers (but it opens a desire for photo lovers like me to have the same for iPhoto . . . )
Browse host is puzzling. Sometimes a browsed host will begin to display results, then the tab closes. Rarely are any of the hosts in Monitor browsable, and none in Connections. Is browse host being phased out?
Well--no time to check out more stuff like LAN transfers and HTML pages. Congrats to all once again--obviously many people were much more productive than I was this summer.
Thanks too to jum and Roger for the GC memory work--I'll try it out with the jum build this weekend after letting the offical version use the memory tonight.