Your Top 5 Feature Requests for Vuze 4.0

Since launching Vuze 4.0 on Wednesday, we’ve been glued to your comments and feedback, and wanted to give you a read-out on our short-term plans.  There have been thousands of feedback comments left over the last few days, so it’s unlikely we’ll be able to respond to each and every one of you.  However, there have been a few consistent requests we want to address.

Your Top 5 Wishlist:

1)  Advanced View:  Many of you upgrading from older versions of Vuze have asked where you can find the familiar Advanced view of your downloading items.

The simple answer:  select My Library and click the View toggle in the top right corner of your Vuze app.

2)  Search Button:  Some of you have asked how you can execute a search on Vuze 4.0, given that the magnifying glass icon next to the search box isn’t clickable.

In designing the search box, we decided to adopt a client-based search box model (similar to the search box in browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer).   Simply type your query in the search box and press “Enter” on your keyboard.  We’ll work to clarify this interaction over the next few days.

3)  Deleting from My Library:  There’s been some concern that deleting items in My Library also deletes the file from your computers.

When managing inherently large video files, we believe the default behavior for deleting items from Vuze should be to delete the file from your computer too (in order to avoid clutter and storage issues on your computer).  That said, you can keep the file on your computer while deleting the torrent by right-clicking on any item in My Library, and selecting “Remove and delete torrent file.”   We’ll improve the messaging soon to clear up this confusion.

4)  Sidebar:  Some of you have requested the ability to minimize the footprint of your Sidebar on the left side of the Vuze app.

We agree this would be a great feature.  We’ll add it in the very near future.

5)  The Frog:  Some of you miss the dear old spotted blue azureus frog.

While we all have fond memories of the old frog, she’s gotten a full make-over and *loves* her new look.  She has no plans to revert to her old style.

Finally, it has been extremely gratifying to see the enthusiasm with which many of you have received the release.  Keep the feedback coming!

Chris

Friday, October 17th, 2008 Uncategorized

56 Comments to Your Top 5 Feature Requests for Vuze 4.0

  1. Paniku on October 24th, 2008

    Love the new look ^^ its really awesome.
    and the frog is wow fits better in my dock!!!

    and the people that say its slow just don’t know to download torrents that are seaded well .. .. .

    goodjob ^^

  2. x102020 on October 24th, 2008

    I’m very happy with the new vuze! again, my top request is to have the ‘advanced’ section, as I’m not always about the media content, but the torrent aspect.

    also, it’d be great to see a plugin that can integrate the feed subscriptions with TVersity! Or have the option to export the subscriptions into an rss feed (at least) so they can be imported into TVersity.

    If I had any say into the future of vuze, i could see vuze transitioning into an IPTV source, that is, if the Media Server functionality was improved.

  3. Mantovic on October 24th, 2008

    Hey guys!

    I would just like to say that the only true flaw I see on this version has to do with the search results when you try to find files to download.

    I always seems to be a short space vertically on the file list to correctly display the total file name. Is there a “view” or “display” option to use to correct this?

    If there is some clarification on this I would be much appreciated. :)

    Thanks guys and keep up with the good work! ;)

  4. Mantovic on October 24th, 2008

    Correction:

    *It always seems to be a short space (vertically speaking) for the file list to correctly display the total file name. Looks half cut off! Is there a “view” or “display” option to use to correct this?»

    Is this understandable? Sorry guys!

  5. Slava on October 25th, 2008

    Strange, the search shows up as black screen. And if I click some other menu and click back on the search result button, nothing happens.
    And clicking around sign in makes entire window greyed out and nothing is clickable anymore, have to restart it.
    This is sad. And I was so proud of the frog before…

  6. hobocrush on October 25th, 2008

    Option to change the: Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme, Theme.

    Option to customise the toolbar in VUZE!

  7. thorne on October 26th, 2008

    miss the dashboard and the black background.. wished you hadn’t changed that… feels like i’m at work… new look very official and too much info.. maybe you should re-hire the last design team they got the look right.. very sleek and cool!!!otherwise keep up the good work

  8. Chris on October 26th, 2008

    @hobocrush – just to be clear…are you saying you want the option to change the theme? ;)

  9. ciuccio on October 28th, 2008

    grazie di tutto a voi ke mi regalate sempre bei films… un saluto agli italiani che si fan sentire poco!!! by ciuccio

  10. Mike on October 29th, 2008

    Love everything about the new release. Except the new frog. The old blue frog was so classy. The new frog is to big and is poorly drawn. It looks like a 5 year old made it. When I first saw it I thought, seriously? The old frog represented the beautiful blue dart frog; one of the most beautiful and inspiring living creatures of the world. A creature much like Bit Torrent itself.

    Loose the new frog, it’s a huge step down, no joke guys.

  11. zorro on October 31st, 2008

    hello have you azerius and every comments in french .please.thank you

  12. bhast2 on November 2nd, 2008

    I love the new look and I have switched from Transmission to Vuze.

    One request maybe have the upload and download speed show in the dock icon and have the option to only have the icon in menubar or dock or both

    now that would be awesome

  13. André on November 3rd, 2008

    Couple of suggestions:

    - Make the Sidebar have a preference setting to whether its permanently closed or opened. Its kinda annoying having to press F7 every time Azureus starts up. I am not sure what the sidebar’s use is anyway, but that may just be me. The classic advanced view is all you need and showing details takes space which I can’t afford to lose to a redundant sidebar.

    - When viewing the details for a torrent, please include a close button somewhere in the upper corners. I had to look around for a while to get back to advanced view. Personally, I think having to find the very small triangle to the left just to get back to advanced view is a bit obstructive.

    - Why not assign Command+1 (on Mac, is it Control+1 on PC?) to advanced view. Or any other Command+Number sequence. Currently the shortcuts start from Command+2 for “My Tracker”, it would be nice to have Advanced view somewhere in there. If the main menu included an “Advanced View” entry somewhere at least the Mac users could use System Preferences to set a Keyboard shortcut on system level for “Advanced View”.

  14. superseeder on November 4th, 2008

    I prefer the new frog! The spotted one looked a bit dated next to all the new more modern minimal looking icons of the recent releases of appz like the Adobe suite and the like. Well done!

  15. hemeny on November 8th, 2008

    could you please add a “seed friends only(until reset/ no friends)” right click option for the next update. a 5-10 kb boost isn’t much some people would prefer as much as they can get, i know im currently seeding something and id prefer to seed the people who say thanks to me first with all my capability

  16. david on November 11th, 2008

    j aime bien la nouvelle version de vuze.je la touve plus claire

  17. domcat on November 16th, 2008

    I love the new look and I have switched from Transmission to Vuze.
    One request maybe have the upload and download speed show in the dock icon and have the option to only have the icon in menubar or dock or both
    now that would be awesome

    Agreed!

  18. AVH on November 18th, 2008

    The new icon: a blue square where a drop of white paint must give the illusion of a frog……. Pse make the old blue frog alive!

  19. prometeo on November 21st, 2008

    Please!! Add streamlined flash plugin support on Linux!!! It simply doesn’t work…

  20. Mr. Smithers on November 22nd, 2008

    If you guys want your old Azureus/Vuze skin back, here is a link to download it.

    http://www.filehippo.com/download_vuze/3117/

    Thank God for FileHippo. Now I don’t have to see that ugly, new layout these guys have.

  21. dm on November 26th, 2008

    something doesn’t work right with .xml.
    vuze isn’t working at all if ie7,firefox,opera r applied first!!!!!!!!!!

  22. Dave W on December 8th, 2008

    is there a way to increase the number of recently used “Data Locations” in the drop-down menu in the OPEN TORRENT dialog? I save to many different directories, over and over again.
    thanks

  23. Tarcisoreis01 on December 25th, 2008

    I would like to add friends, my adress is : tarcisoreis@gmail.com

  24. SweepayhoflonelexWep on January 3rd, 2009

    qwnqjleccclrxtlxwell, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch ;)

  25. Eddie on January 4th, 2009

    ummm i am pretty scared that this thing is going to mess up my computer i mean its already getting kind of slow

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