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[Wishlist] Work Offline #2079

Closed copywrong closed 7 years ago

copywrong commented 10 years ago

Add "Work Offline" button to File menu (see Mozilla Firefox).

Why? Sometimes I want to stop all the traffic and I have to pause the torrents manually or exit qBittorrent.

sledgehammer999 commented 10 years ago

Why don't you choose the same menu entry from the firefox's menu?

copywrong commented 10 years ago

@sledgehammer999 I don't see any Work Offline feature in qBittorrent. I see a Pause All button but is different from what I asking because with Work Offline I could resume only the previous active torrents. Right now qBittorrent only pauses all and resumes all.

sledgehammer999 commented 10 years ago

Look at Firefox's file menu not qbt's file menu.

chrishirst commented 10 years ago

or exit qBittorrent.

And the difference between File -> Exit and File -> "Go Offline" is what exactly????

copywrong commented 10 years ago

@sledgehammer999 I do use Work Offline feature in Firefox.

@chrishirst The difference is that Exit closes qBittorrent and Work Offline doesn't. The purpose of my suggestion is to allow the user to disable network activity (temporarily) without pausing torrents.

copywrong commented 10 years ago

BTW "Work Offline" sounds strange because qBittorrent can't do anything else than torrenting...

sledgehammer999 commented 10 years ago

And why do you need this to be implemented in qbt? Aren't you satisfied with Firefox's (and any other browser's) "work offline" option?

copywrong commented 10 years ago

You don't want to add the option just because. Firefox is for web browsing...

pmzqla commented 10 years ago

You don't want to add the option just because.

Well, it's not like a two lines change and it's not such an important feature for a BitTorrent client. I understand why someone might want it, but I also understand why a dev might prefer to work on other features/bugs.

Here a (not so handy) workaround: select all the active torrents, add a label to them and use the "Pause all" button. When you want to resume all the previously active torrents, use the "Resume all" option of the context menu that you get right clicking on the label.