Version display

[marcchataigner-zz]

Version display -- Linked with the #597 DAT Desktop v4 concept

Version display, next to the Dat-file name.

Open to discussion.

[martinheidegger]

I think the version display should always be at the same location. The title of each DAT can potentially be long (and cropped off).

Note: there is a version increase of a least 1 per file (depending on the file's size and changes: many more!); version numbers of 10000+ can be quite common!

Possible alternatives:

• Put it in next line, before <author> / <authorization>: possible but a little small and the place is already crowded.
• Add another column: Consumes more horizontal space.
• Add it to the progress bar: After all the progress bar technically shows the progress for the current version.

[marcchataigner-zz]

Interesting. What would that look like ?

version 2

version 3

[dkastl]

Somehow it seems to me, that the colors are not clear ... and there are three columns, which have colors. Especially I'm not sure, if we really need the hexagon on the left.

[marcchataigner-zz]

Looking at the level of informations and actions displayed, I think this might work, even if it looks complicated at first.

Dat status:

• Dark blue: Synced
• Light blue: Downloading or syncing
• Grey: On hold (to stop syncing, and stop seeding)
• Red: Error

In the previous version, I think there was a conflict in color with the peers (green-yellow-red), that state something about the connection/network status.

We may invert some colors of course, but would that help to distinguish between Dat status and Connection status ?

[dkastl]

Maybe another perspective: the three dots are green for 3 peers or more, yellow for two and red for one peer only (so just me probably).

• Does this now mean, that red is a failure?
• Isn't 100 peers much greener than 3 peers? Why is 3 peers so much better than 2 peers?

Maybe we could actually move the colors back to the synchronization indicator, which could be more seen like traffic lights. With the number of peers we want to show more, if there are enough nodes with copies. But I'm not sure if one more peer actually makes such a big difference to allow the color to become green.

[dkastl]

Eventually a smiley could better indicate the number of peers. As more peers as bigger the smile.