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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:43 am

Atester wrote:The version now crashes every time when starts on Windows 10 insider build 10525+ x64 edition.


Unfortunately, the current FDM5 version doesn't support Win10 insider. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:50 am

mcirsta wrote:
mcirsta wrote:Will you realease some source code for this ? I know it's a huge ammount of work but I'm interested in porting this to Linux ( using Qt 5 ).


Can anyone answer this one ? I'd just like to know given that there hasn't been much recent activity on sourceforge.

Thanks.


Sorry for the late response. Currently, our team is working on a cross-platform version of FDM5. We're planning to release FDM5 for Mac in the nearest future. So, the new source code may be published with the new release.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:55 am

Napalm wrote:Better than the version 3.x

However I would like to:

1 - Drag and drop directly from the main screen.
2 - Resize to smaller sizes than it's possible now.


Thank you for the feature suggestion. It has been forwarded to our devs team. While the 'Drag&Drop' option is already being worked on, the integration of the latter one is still undecided.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:59 am

Guest wrote:Congratulation for this new version. It look quite easy to use and bundle with feature. However, the following feature are welcome.

Firstly : Silent mode download.

when clicking on the file to be downloaded, the download should start imediately to the default folder without prompting me to click on the download button in FDM (even though FDM is minimize to tray or not).

An option in the setting menu should be available which allow us to choose from Automatic download(explained above) or Choose a different already assigned folder if needed.


Secondly : A more appropriate option to schedule download at any requested time / date

Thank & regards

James


Thank you for the report. It has been forwarded to our devs team.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:13 am

benib90 wrote:Suggestion:
Add a keyboard button to let the browser take over the download e.g. CTRL+click the link. I know the Cancel button in the Add download box does that, but let that one do what it should do: cancel the download.

For instance, sometimes I just want to query the size of the file, and when I 'cancel' the download starts in the browser.

And if I disable that in Monitoring, there is no way to pass the download to the browser.

In either case something clicks!


Thank you for the suggestion.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby alfablac » Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:16 pm

Hello guys!
I've been using FDM for more than 6 years.. thanks!
I'm still "cautious" to jump to FDM 5, because the current lack of FDM 3 features on it prevents me.
I loved the Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V function, though.
Is the site explorer, scheduler and web spider a possible feature on FDM 5?
Correct me if this is the wrong forum. Didn't find topics about it.
There's no way I'm the only one who liked those functions..
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:41 am

alfablac wrote:Hello guys!
I've been using FDM for more than 6 years.. thanks!
I'm still "cautious" to jump to FDM 5, because the current lack of FDM 3 features on it prevents me.
I loved the Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V function, though.
Is the site explorer, scheduler and web spider a possible feature on FDM 5?
Correct me if this is the wrong forum. Didn't find topics about it.
There's no way I'm the only one who liked those functions..


Thank you for the feedback. While the Download Scheduler feature is going to be implemented in the next FDM5 release, the other two suggestions (Site Explorer and Web Spider) have been forwarded to our team for consideration.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Kalpesh » Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:25 pm

When will you release FDM5 new version ?

Thanks

Kalpesh
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:27 am

Kalpesh wrote:When will you release FDM5 new version ?

Thanks

Kalpesh


Hopefully, the new version will be released before the end of the year.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Guest 3196 » Tue Nov 10, 2015 1:17 am

Great looks although my suggestion would be keep most of the original FDM 3 and prior looks and functions but update the UI especially the context menus to a modern interface, like the one on this preview release. That would be great :D
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Guest » Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:17 pm

I'm a big fan of FDM from my Windows days

I'm now a big Linux fan, but not really liking what's available for download managers within Linux distros
I've tried uGet; KGet; DownThemAll; FlareGet etc.. but none of them have the same useful functionality that comes with FDM...

Please can someone look into bringing FDM to the Linux world

Thanks
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:13 am

Guest wrote:I'm a big fan of FDM from my Windows days

I'm now a big Linux fan, but not really liking what's available for download managers within Linux distros
I've tried uGet; KGet; DownThemAll; FlareGet etc.. but none of them have the same useful functionality that comes with FDM...

Please can someone look into bringing FDM to the Linux world

Thanks


Currently, our team is working on the cross-platform version of FDM5. We're planning to release FDM5 for Mac in the nearest future. Then, maybe, we will focus on the version for Linux.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Usher » Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:48 pm

Clive Sorensson wrote:Currently, our team is working on the cross-platform version of FDM5. We're planning to release FDM5 for Mac in the nearest future. Then, maybe, we will focus on the version for Linux.
If you are still going to use Chromium Embedded Framework, you should move to CEF3, I think. CEF1 is buggy and no longer actively developed or supported, while CEF3 has performance similar to Google Chrome so FDM 5 should be much faster. I have tested CEF3 sample apps and they work also with Windows XP SP3 at least for build 2454 (CEF 3.2454.1344.g2782fb8), so there is no reason to stay with CEF1 IMHO.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby Clive Sorensson » Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:01 am

Usher wrote:If you are still going to use Chromium Embedded Framework, you should move to CEF3, I think. CEF1 is buggy and no longer actively developed or supported, while CEF3 has performance similar to Google Chrome so FDM 5 should be much faster. I have tested CEF3 sample apps and they work also with Windows XP SP3 at least for build 2454 (CEF 3.2454.1344.g2782fb8), so there is no reason to stay with CEF1 IMHO.


Thank you for the advice. You're absolutely right, CEF3 proves much better performance, so we're already working with it. The next FDM5 release will be based on CEF3.
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Re: FDM 5 Preview

Postby wito » Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:55 pm

First of all, a fundamental option is missing in Settings: set default download directory. Without this, there is no true "silent monitoring". I mean, one has to confirm every time a download starts, even if and when the app is meant to be hidden in the taskbar. Or am I missing something?

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