Request minor tweak to the Pause function and Remain time

[Josef K]

Right now if UE is downloading at full speed and I need to look at something for a few minutes on the web without it taking forever, I need to double-click UE to maximise it, select the dropdown list and then the length of time I'd like UE paused and then minimise UE again. That for me is a lot more work than it probably should be, given that I only need to pause for 10 minutes most times I need to do this. For example, I've needed to do exactly this in order to make this post.

I propose adding the most often used lengths (probably 10, 20 and 30 minutes) to the right-click in the taskbar. For all other options, I would not mind the extra steps of the maximising to minimising steps. This would give the context menu of:

• Icon in system tray
  Show/Hide [dblclick]
  Pause tasks
  Pause tasks [10 minutes]
  Pause tasks [20 minutes]
  Pause tasks [30 minutes]
  Exit Usenet Explorer

In addition to this, I'd really like to see the time remaining of the pause in the tooltip while UE is minimised to the taskbar. Even further, I'd like to see the time remaining for all downloads to complete inside the tooltip.

Now that I've actually made this post (I've been thinking of requesting these things for a while now), I'd like to see a further tweak to the remaining time calculation. By this I mean that if I've paused articles (right-clicked articles to manually pause a selected few), I'd like to see the remain time for only the unpaused articles in the queue. This would be useful in situations where, for example, I've queued up a large PAR set accompanying a set of RARs. I might not need all the PARs so I could pause them in the queue. However, I'd only really need to know how long till the RARs are due to be completed. Then all I'd have left to do would be to cancel the PARs. Of course, if you build into UE a function whereby UE automatically verifies and downloads additional PARs as needed ( )then this would become redundant.

It would still be useful in situations where I absolutely must have something downloading right away. Sometimes priorities in the queue can't work. For example, I queue up 2 DVDs. One is available on my ISP server, another on a pay server. I might want the one that's only on my pay server first - no matter what and as soon as possible and also with the remain time telling me how long is left. However, the other DVD is also downloading from my ISP at the same time, thereby hogging too much bandwidth. My ISP server is extremely fast so in these situations I might end up still waiting for the preferred DVD from my pay server long after my ISP has finished downloading. I realise there are ways to achieve this but things like changing the amount of download threads can be a hassle.

P.S. Sometimes once I start typing I just can't seem to stop myself.

[alex]

i'll just add the whole submenu in the system tray menu above the current pause option.

also i forgot to add it to default toolbar file submenu, i'll add it there too, since otherwise the limited time pause menu entries are not customizable.

to show remaining time is not so necessary, you see while it is paused (the button is pressed also in menus) and you can unpress it at any moment, it is not something you cannot control and must wait until it is finishes