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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Feedback!


Last updated: Nov 19th

Wow, what a great response we've been getting from all you guys out there. Thanks so much for taking the time to help us out and improve PimpFish! I already received the first reports from people, so from now on this will be the main thread/post regarding all bugs and issues in this blog. I will continuously edit this thread as new stuff is added and resolved so we all can track whats been going on. Anyway:

New issues:

  • AutoUpdate not working

    Status: NOT A BUG. This is a serverside "error" and due to the fact that we haven't finalized AutoUpdate implementation for PimpFish. This has no bearing on the functionality of AutoUpdate. It is simply a matter of us putting up an XML file in our servers and things will work again. Besides, PimpFish is the latest version out. No need to update anything yet.



  • New directory naming scheme not working out for some people

    Status: The new naming scheme we introduced in PimpFish to solve the file overwrite problem is not working out for some people. We will look into improving our system.



  • Suggestion: Show direct download link in install downloader if it has gotten succesful reply from our serverside script, but errored out on the actual download


Solved issues

  • Download speed "invisible" in download statistics

    Status: Under investigation. We think this problem may be related to large fonts/screen resolution. We could use some more info on this, if somebody could send us a screenshot of this in action?


  • Suggestion: When the user has hit OK in the registration dialog, show a message advising/reminding them that they will not see a confirmation in the about dialog untill they have restarted the downloader

    Status: Many small improvements to the system in the upcoming update


  • FloatBar doesn't work for Real Media

    Description: We don't plan on supporting RealPlayer with the FloatBar as it is a very tricky media format to handle. We will look into improving the UI (maybe show some sort of unobtrusive warning the first time you hover over an embedded RealPlayer movie)

    Status: We investigated this and judged FloatBar was behaving appropriatly for Real video. Real is a streaming format, so it will be hard for us to support it. (not to mention the lack of _will_ to support it, as Real in our opinion is an evil empire)



Top reporters

  • Neu/Neu8
  • William
  • George


Keep hooking us up with that goodie info! :)

AHJ

posted by Arnito at 01:47  

2 Comments:

  • The names of downloaded subdirectories used to appear in 1cpg. In pimpfish they appear with "default" and "default[1]" as the subdirectory names. I preferred the old system, which preserved site names. Could you go back to it?

    By neu8, at November 11, 2005  

  • Neu8 - The directories are only called "default" if you grab from a URL with no page name (that is, the URL ends in a slash). For example: http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/digicam/pier/

    Try grabbing from http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/digicam/pier/index.html twice and you should see two directories, "index" and "index[1]".

    In fact, the directory naming scheme is the same as 1CPG, there is just the new logic to detect when a directory already exists - that's when the numeric suffix is used.

    -- Mike Dunn, Zabersoft Development

    By Zabersoft, at November 18, 2005  

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