I've been thinking of a tree-based representation, but it wouldn't be the default. Reason is, the JTree structure is much slower than JTable and if there are many shared files (as in tens of thousands) the gui would get very slow. I will add it at some point though.


As far as MW is concerned nobody is firewalled, because you can reach any MW node regardless of their physical firewall-ness status. But for i2p, if you are firewalled you will participate much less in the network and hence get much less cover traffic, which is worse for anonymity. So it's a good thing to not be firewalled.


The I2P router uses UDP when available (the number of "SSU" connections are actually UDP connections to other I2P nodes). As usual, UDP is slightly faster and lower overhead than TCP.


Agreed that having this ability is important, but it requires me to write native code and I'm not particularly good at that. Nevertheless I hope to get to it at some point.


Checking is outsourced to the I2P router which checks shortly after startup and then on average every 13 minutes.



This setting is relevant only if "allow only trusted connections" is enabled. What happens is that if you allow only trusted connections, MW will only connect to those whom you have marked as "TRUSTED". In order to prevent your queries reaching untrusted nodes, in trusted mode queries travel one fewer hop. The "extra hop" setting overrides this behavior. See this GitHub ticket for a discussion on the issue https://github.com/zlatinb/muwire/issues/6


At the moment no id3 tags or other metadata (like comments) is used when searching, and it's not trivial to do so. Sure, I can copy/paste the id3 parsing from LW, but the underlying plumbing requires some more in-depth changes and design decisions.

Thanks for your answers.

Is there a how to or other descriptive page for how to use Muwire?
What is a Watched Directory? I forgot to ask about this. I notice you made some changes to this some hours ago in the code. I setup two watched directories but not sure what they actually do.
I inititially thought a watched directory might detail search hits or upload counts, etc.

I had hoped you might have descriptive contextual menus that describe what a particular tool does when you hover your cursor overtop the tool button. I realise this kind of concept might require a lot of work to add. From memory LW 4 used to have this ability and LW 5 had it to a lesser extent.

Yes that does describe it well, particularly the last comments.

Looks like the OP/TS might be wanting the equivalent of what LW 5 had for private sharing between friends. Though the way LW 5 achieved it might become redundant in years to come such as linking with gmail. I cannot remember the specifics, just what gmail will be accepting in the future. I think there might be a guest comment about this at WSHR’s SF.

Not yet, I'm hoping someone will contribute one because I'm not the best person to write such page - to me everything is intuitive enough and that's just not the case for new users.


A watched directory is monitored for file changes (like new files added or existing ones deleted) and those get reflected in the shared files list. However, I decided just a few hours ago that this is too confusing and clutters the UI, so I'll get rid of that panel very soon and make every shared directory a "watched" one.


They're coming at some point, thanks for the suggestion!


I just finished writing this few hours ago! If you feel like building from source you can give it a test-drive. Otherwise I expect to have 0.5.0 out in the next few days.

And by that I meant next few hours - 0.5.0 is live on the site. I think you'll like the new shared files interface

Much better. Well done! I also like the volumes listing; applicable to me at least since I have a desktop with several volumes, one of which is specifically for music. (I prefer lossless audio for listening.)
Phex and I think BearShare used this style of shares listings.

I was able to clean up the share list a little after being able to see it properly.

This might be a big question, but how do we use the content filter?
I find myself unable to add a term in the content control panel. What's the trick to adding the term? Might be an OS or OSX version specific issue.

I found I was sharing Finder files such as .DS_Store which is a tell-tale of what platform a person is using. In some ways these files remove a small amount of anonymity. These could potentially be added to a built-in not-shared filter list of similar items for other platforms. They are OS specific and generally hidden files that serve no purpose outside of the specific OS and computer. IMHO these could be considered garbage files on a sharing network.

LPE used LibraryUtils if I'm allowed to list this. (I would have used a WSHR reference except I've noticed the WSHR code linked bookmarks sometimes die (30-40% of mine.))

The Content Control Panel is intended to help you build your trust/distrust list. You input keywords or a regular expression in the text field and click "Add Rule". Then whenever a search comes to your node that matches that rule it is recorded, together with who searched it. Based on that you can choose to trust or distrust (aka block) that person. If you want to see every query that hits your node, enter the following as a regular expression ".*" (without the quotes).


Regarding the .DS_Store files I agree those should be excluded. I will look into adding some sort of filtering mechanism for such files.

Thanks. Funnily I didn't notice the text box until you mentioned it. It's located at the bottom left corner sort of out of the way.