[Mldonkey-users] soulseek made useless

[kami petersen]

hi

just like to say that this program is getting even better than i thought 
possible, but heres a thing that could be improved:

however soulseek seems to work just fine in a techical aspect, the lack 
of certain features in the gui's render it almost impossible to use. due 
to the simple nature of the soulseek network, it is absoulutely 
necessary to get information on the size of remote peer's queue, since 
there is none of the hi tec features we're used to, like fingerprinting 
and multisource. it is thus up to the downloading peer to make the 
choice from wich source he'd like to get his files, but this assessment 
can't be made based on the current way mldonkey's gui's handles the 
soulseek information feed.

so, the question is, can we expect that the gui's will be changed in the 
near future in order to display the queue size of soulseek peers? i feel 
that without this, a lot of effort to bring slsk to mldonkey would just 
be useless. soulseek is, because it is simple, one of the most efficient 
ways to find a very wide range of music.

another soulseek-specific feature is the ability to "download 
directory", not a crucial but very helpful function.

this is probably not just the case of slsk, i guess that the experience 
of gnutella and other networks could be improved by a slightly more 
adaptive gui. different networks, different uses.

thanks!

kami petersen