Drag and Drop Request

[Mok]

Drag a torrent listed in the area on the right

and drop it onto a Label listed in the area on the left...

assuming there is a Label already in the list.

This will greatly enhance the ability to manage the files.

See if I can set up an example.

Lets say...

you download a file but intend to use it later.

You've labeled something in the past... "Save for Later"

that Label is listed along the left.

You drag and drop the newly downloaded torrents name onto the "Save for Later" Label

and it gets Labeled as such.

In the past.... you've also created a Label named.... "Finished. Uploading"

for files you were finished with.... but was kind enough to hang onto it

so you could upload it to others.

After using the file downloaded earlier....

you drag it from the list on the right and onto the Label listed as "Finished. Uploading"

To the user... it appears to be dropping it into a folder like in Explorer

But its actually just setting the Label Property

[Firon]

Don't be lazy. It takes two clicks to change the label.

[JamPS]

I would like that feature too.

And why doesn't the label that you selected last time when you added a torrent stay that way when you add another?

[Ultima]

Because µTorrent doesn't make any assumptions about the way the user organizes his/her torrents. Why should it?

[JamPS]

Well it remembers the last folder I put my stuff to.

Why shouldn't it remember the label too?

[Ultima]

If everything had the same label, why bother using labels? Download location isn't a form of organization for torrent jobs, so they can't really be compared.

[JamPS]

I currently use 2 labels, and add torrents to one of them many at a time.

So well now I first add the torrents and then assign a label to them.

I guess this has to be.

[monoaural]

bit torrent doesn't make any assumptions about the way the user organizes his or her torrents, save that it assumes you don't want to freely organize them *however* you want... you can only sort by the headings, and move around downloading torrents when you sort by number.

so... implementing a labels system such as that suggested may make a sorting option that is more accessible for newbs, average joes, and ppl who are lazy or like to do things real fast.

however, that being said, i'm not one of those persons.

[Ultima]

@JamPS: Anything wrong with adding them en masse and then changing the labels *after*?

[JamPS]

It's ok, just a different way that I would prefer

[shyagam]

Don't be lazy. It takes two clicks to change the label.

It's not lazyness! It's the need for speed!

Some people like things to be performed ASAP, and prefer not to start clicking, or typing, their way to their goal. I'm one of them, of course...

That's why applications implement stuff like HotKeys, Mouse Gestures, Drag-And-Drop (like in the current case), and more...

I guess I have to agree with the original poster.

Regards,

Shy.

[tjobo]

Good idea.. This would make it quicker and easier to sort up your "No label" torrents.

[Firon]

In case anyone's curious, this IS on the todo for 1.8 (but nothing is set in stone).

[jewelisheaven]

How hard is it to show Label column right click, select.

[cxspan]

Came here to request the exact same feature. Just wanted to show my support I hope it makes it into the 1.8 release!!! Thanks for all the good work.

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[jewelisheaven]

Not 1.8, 1.8 has been in feature freeze for months. Possibly but not likely for 1.9. It's been accepted as a request and not rejected Take hope in that.

[murmulis]

agaik drag and drop code is very stright forward

I vote for this too

BTW, is there are public todo list?

[gsmd]

+ 1 vote. this would be a time-saver.

[hoping]

I'd much rather see drag and drop for file download location, particularly changing the file location.

[limnique]

Please add this feature, it would be greate!