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@dacexi is still in contact with you?
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@KennyTheBard that q normally stands for micro but due to Linux systems having difficulty displaying it they make an q.
He probably stole the idea from uTorrent or the likes.
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@rootshell
Yeah i know that he prob meant something like uTorrente, but i think is quite cool q too -
@rootshell I'm guessing it's because of Qt library he is using for the UI
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@ripbit Ahh yeah, that could very well be it. Or both.
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@CozyPlanes yeah
@zickig not yet, part of the future plan
@stop it does not preallocate anything so I guess it uses sparse files? Not sure
@rootshell hey! I didn't steal anything. It's a pretty common naming convention for downloaders. And as I said, I don't like it.
@ripbit you're right
@moagggi thanks! Will look into it
@c3ypt1c will be added soon!
@kwilliams hey! Good ones are paid and rest of them sucks 😉 -
@tahnik i just found the code. in Download::downloadFinished all files are read and their content in one file written. so no sparsefiles.
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@stop how would a sparse files work if you don't mind explaining 😊
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@tahnik
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The download manager is coming together nicely!
The idea is simple, all the downloads are multithreaded. It saves the chunks and then merges it together at the end. So far it uses 30-40mb for the whole thing!
Next stop, add queue management and then browser integration. The source code is here: https://github.com/tahnik/qDownload.
Don't blame me if you vomit once you see the code. I am still working on it and it will be clean soon. I would love to get some suggestion for the name of the project. It is "qDownload" currently and I fucking hate it.
@Dacexi is joining tomorrow to help with the UI. It's gonna be amazing 🤘
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