Feature Requests
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This wiki page can be used to request a new feature in NNTPGrab.
New feature requests can be placed on this page.
Feature requests which have been implemented are moved to Feature Requests/Implemented
[edit] Rules
There are a few rules which need to be followed to keep the list readable:
- For each new feature create a new block within this wiki page. This can be done by using a level 2 headline - In each feature mention the following: * Summary (one line description of the feature) * Description (full description of the feature) * Status (this needs to be 'unconfirmed' for new requests) * Date requested * Date last updated (to be updated by the developers) * Your name (or nickname) - If other people are also interested in a feature, they can add their name to the list. This is a indication for the developers to see how many people are interested in a specific feature
[edit] list of free news-servers (with or without account needed)
Description: It would be handy to have a built in list of free news-servers. with or with account needed wont be a problem. this way, you can use a free server without much trouble. there are many good sites out there that keep these sort of lists..
Status: Not possible, as for as I know, there aren't any (dynamic) lists of free usenet servers. Without such a list, this feature isn't possible to implement.
Comment: Take a look at: http://freeusenetnews.com maybe it is possible
Date requested: December 7 2007
Date last updated: January 3 2008
Reporter: eagle00789
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] Disabling or pause one or more download threads temporarely
Description: In newsleecher a thread can be paused/stopped and later started again. Often this has beter effects on the continuality of the download than the limiter of Newsleecher, while something else is also using some bandwith. (Newsleecher limits downloads with "blocks", a jagged download line is the result)
Extra info:
1. as stated in the description, Newsleecher does download in limited mode in a "jagged" mode (download full speed, and then wait till the average over so many seconds is equal the required max). The resulting download speed looks like the sinus of an AC power line. By disabling 1 or more lines, this is prevented, and the (other conventional) download goes more smoothly. Unknown to the charisterix of the yet to be written download limiting algoritme, this may happen with NNTPGrab as wel. Maybe an option to integrate such disabeling of the connection into the limiting algoritme?
2. I use a payserver, which I share with 2 others, sometimes one of them need more speed to finish their download early, or another friend who does not use a payserver, uses a couple of lines from me for the retention, I'll give away a couple of threads for some time then.
3. In newsleecher it is not possible to say: "finish downloading this file and stop downloading"..... I'll do this manually sometimes (for rebooting or whatever). This is maybe another feature, for another button next to Pauzing the Queue in the future.
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: January 1 2008
Date last updated: January 14 2008
Reporter: High-Q
People interested:
- Hermsen
- Izz
- Eddie Turfboer
- VLC
[edit] Assign categories
Description: An ability to create categories and assign these to collections. These categories contain rules like 'Add prefix to folder name' or put the download in a specific sub-folder like 'DVD' or 'APP'.
Status: Unconfirmed
Extended Description: I download a nzb and put it in the watch folder. NG detects a new nzb with the name Prison.Break.S05E01.HDTV-ctu (example). A filter (or category) is matching on 'Prison.Break'. NG is importing this nzb on top of the queue so it will be downloaded first. When one or more files are damaged it will repair and extract it to the desktop automatically.
You can compare it with message filters in Thunderbird or Outlook. Possible matching criteria:
- Name of the nzb
- Starts with
- Contains
- Does not contain
- Ends with
- Size of the files inside
- Larger than
- Smaller than
- Equals to
- Age of the files
- Older than (days)
- Newer than
- Name of the group
- Starts with
- Contains
- Does not contain
- Ends with
- Name of the poster
- Starts with
- Contains
- Does not contain
- Ends with
Possible actions NG could do whenever a criteria is matched:
- Set specific download folder
- Whenever I download series I want to be able to view them immediately. So I prefer them to extract them to the desktop. Not to the default target folder.
- Nothing/Repair/Extract/Delete
- What should happen with the source files? I'm downloading with the computer I'm actively using so I do not wish to repair a DVD because it will take too many resources.
- Rename target folder
- I like the download folder to be organised. Maybe even extract parts of the original nzb name:
- Example nzb: Prison.Break.S01.D06.PROPER.PAL.NL.DVDR-BiERBUiKEN
- Matcher: Prison.Break.{1}.{2}.PROPER.PAL.NL.DVDR-BiERBUiKEN
- New name: [SER] Prison Break {1}{2}
- Result: [SER] Prison Break S01D06
- I like the download folder to be organised. Maybe even extract parts of the original nzb name:
- Place in queue
- Series like Prison Break I like to see immediately so the should be in top of the queue.
- Assign server
- Create for use with the 'Age of files' filter. You can use pay-per-download servers for files older than a specific day.
- Schedule download
- Postpone a download.
Reporter: The_Worst
Date requested: June 16 2008
Date last updated: August 21 2008
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] Force focus on NG when clicking on systemtray icon
Description: When I click on the NG icon in the systemtray NG maximizes behind currently running programs which is quite annoying. A focus on NG would be very nice.
Status: Confirmed
For Windows, this is caused by a bug in GTK (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537183)
For Linux, this is the default behaviour of the GNOME window manager (metacity) and can be changed by using gconf-editor to disable the option /apps/metacity/general/raise_on_click
Date requested: August 7 2008
Date last updated: August 7 2008
Reporter: The_Worst
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] Download counters per server and total
Description: Counters for each provisioned server that show the current download bandwidth (K/sec) and the amount of data downloaded (GB). It would be nice if the amount of data downloaded can be settable (to zero or a previous value). A counter for the total data downloaded (GB), preferably settable to zero or another initial value.
Status: Planned for version 0.7
Date requested: August 18 2008
Date last updated: February 23 2010
Reporter:
- Hermsen
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] Settable period for the speed-monitor
Description: Make the display period of the speed-monitor settable from the current 10 seconds to a range from 10 to 600 seconds. This allows to verify the stability of the download bandwidth, and for verify the results of an event like a router reboot.
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: August 18 2008
Date last updated: -
Reporter: Hermsen
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] More conservative SSL certificate handling
Description: Allow user to accept, temporary accept, or deny a (self-signed) SSL certificate. A user should only be able to automatically accept a SSL certificate if the certificate is in the list of certificate authorities the user trusts (see e.g. ca-certificates on Debian/Ubuntu). If the certificate is not in earlier mentioned web of trust present the user with an informative dialog where the user can permanently accept, temporarily accept, or deny the certificate authority. This would include even a self-signed certificate. Ideally, the implementation would also adhere GTK/GNOME dialog standards. A reference implementation is Mozilla Firefox 3.0. Because this feature is fundamental for proper usage and security of SSL it is highly important.
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: October 04 2008
Date last updated: None
Reporter: dpi
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] Change download folder of collections in queue
Description: Allow user to change the download folder by right-clicking the collection, or multiple files in the queue.
Status: Planned for version 0.7
Date requested: October 19 2008
Date last updated: January 8 2009
Reporter: Izz
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] Time-based speed limiter
Description: Allow users to set a maximum download speed for a period of time and unlimited for an other period.
Status: Planned for version 0.7
Date requested: October 29 2008
Date last updated: January 8 2009
Reporter: Maartenh
People interested:
- Jossie90
- CloudBolt
- ReQuester
- Netput
- Eddie Turfboer
- jack_spratt
[edit] Decoding with multiple CPU cores
Description: It would be nice if the decoder could utilize more than one processing unit. Maybe by decoding multiple files at the same time.
Status: Confirmed, implemented in version 0.5.90 (0.6 Beta 1). The decoder is rewritten so it's more CPU friendly. If a version using multiple CPU cores is still requested it can be introduced in a later version
Date requested: November 27 2008
Date last updated: February 23 2010
Reporter: Spockz
People interested:
- maartenh
- ReQuester
- Tripkip
- jack_spratt
[edit] Filter nzbcreator results
Description: The possibility to filter the results that are found by nzbcreator. Could be something like NOT sfv NOT sample AND s01 AND poster:HarryHandig
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: February 27 2009
Date last updated:
Reporter: Flex1986
People interested:
- - none yet -
[edit] Bookmark a search query
Description: Bookmark a search query so you can execute the same query a couple of weeks later. This is easy to use when you bookmark a serie with filter options you can easily find new episodes.
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: February 27 2009
Date last updated:
Reporter: Flex1986
People interested:
- - none yet -
[edit] Option to set/change timeout time
Description: Option in configuration gui to change the time for NNTPGrab to wait after unexpected disconnection with server.
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: March 04 2009
Date last updated:
Reporter: Floor19
People interested:
- - none yet -
[edit] Download par files ONLY when needed
Description: Download par files ONLY when needed to save disk space and time. It's a feature that LottaNZB has done nicely.
Status: Confirmed, planned for NNTPGrab 0.7
Date requested: March 22 2009
Date last updated: April 7 2009
Reporter: ReQuester
People interested:
- Eddie Turfboer
- Koter84
- LorDa
[edit] Option to delete unneeded files after successful extraction
Description: Option to delete unneeded files after successful extraction. Files like rar, par2, sfv and other unneeded files so that only the extracted content stays.
Status: Implemented in NNTPGrab 0.5.91 (0.6 Beta 2)
Date requested: March 22 2009
Date last updated: February 23 2010
Reporter: ReQuester
People interested:
- -mlagerweij
- Eddie Turfboer
- The_Worst
- Kaaskopje
- Koter84
- Tripkip
- LorDa
- VLC
[edit] Remove all popup with error, create log panel
Description: The dialog log error are annoying when there is a lot and it' freezing the gui. Please create a log panel, to mput all the message.
Status: Need info: What dialog log errors do you mean exactly? If you're talking about assertion errors, these indicate bugs which should be reported and fixed
Date requested: June 27 2009
Date last updated: June 27 2009
Reporter: ReQuester
People interested:
- Nonobis
- The_Worst (Example: when my computer wakes from sleep, DNS will fail for ~10 seconds so NG will display a popyp stating "xxxx could not be resolved. Queue paused.". Create a timeout instead and log this message to a log panel)
[edit] Uppercase filename when incomplete
Description: When a file isn't complete after download, capitalize the filename when saving it on HD.
Status: unconfirmed
Date requested: July 05 2009
Date last updated:
Reporter: Chrashoverraid
People interested:
[edit] Growl and Growl for Windows notifications
Description: Use Growl and Growl for Windows for desktop notifications of the status of downloads (started download, finished download, repaired, unpacked, etc)
Status: Confirmed, will be in NNTPGrab 0.7 (Qt frontend)
Date requested: July 18 2009
Date last updated: February 23 2010
Reporter: johnydoe
People interested:
[edit] Prevent the pc to go to sleep while downloading
Description: Currently the pc will go to sleep after the sleeptimer (control panel > power options > high performance > plan settings > "Put the computer to sleep") expires. I would like to request a feature so NNTPGrab prevent the pc to go to sleep during downloading.
Status: Confirmed, implemented in NNTPGrab 0.6 beta 2 (0.5.91)
Date requested: January 03 2010
Date last updated: February 14 2010
Reporter: Hermsen
People interested:
- - None yet -
[edit] Automatic RSS import
Description: A functionality to automatically import NZB files via an RSS feed like: http://mytvnzb.mine.nu.
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: January 08 2010
Date last updated:
Reporter:
Kaaskopje
People interested:
- None yet -
[edit] Let NNTPgrab remember the position and size of tabs in Download Qeue section
Description: NNTPgrab does'nt remember the position and size of the tabs in the Download Qeue (Download wachtrij) tab after you restart the program. It would ne a nice feature if you could make a tab with a very long name like "Overgebleven bestandsgrote" a bit smaller. Or if you prefer the tab of "bestandsgrootte" right next to the progress bar. You can do that right now but the change will be lost after you close the program. I would also like to change the position and size of the tabs in the "server connection" part of the program.
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: March 01 2010
Date last updated: -
Reporter:
Elrithranduil
People interested:
- None yet -
[edit] Sort of rar files in nzb files
Description:
When downloading large file in multiple rar parts like free of rights movie, it is possible to extract incomplete file before end of downlaad to check quality using "unrar x -kb *.rar" or "unrar x -kb *.part01" command.
Unfortunately with NNTPGrab, parts are downloaded in nzb order and most of the time it is not the right order to have the beginning of the file first.
Functionnality request:
Sort of the file in nzb based on following order depending rar extension type :
- .rar then *.rxx then *.par2
or
- .partxx then par2
Status: Unconfirmed
Date requested: March 03 2010
Date last updated: -
Reporter:
didierg
People interested:
- None yet -
