sledgehammer999

For the next release we already imlemented a "fetch metadata in the background while add new torrent dialog is still showing" feature. Would this be enough?

> For most cases, I agree that fetching while the dialog is showing works just fine. However, I have a few questions: will there be a button to fetch the...

What I meant is this. Currently libtorrent treats magnet links as torrents without metadata. Which means that magnet links count against the queue limits. This means even if you want...

No it isn't implemented. He wants this: Add the torrent to session(after closing the dialog), but download only the metadata. Then pause. Don't continue downloading the files.

@ngosang In case you want to implement this: Do as is done currently in master for magnets: set the `flag_upload_mode` which will prevent it from accidentally writing to disk. See...

no problem. I was just giving info.

@chrishirst while I don't reject the idea of making the dialog non-modal, I think having an option to "pause when metadata is received" for magnets is still useful.

> What exactly are the barriers to implementing this useful function? :) So many issues/features/PRs to work with. So little time. :)

@qkiel you can "Force resume" a magnet. The downside is that it will start downloading all files without asking you which ones you want.

If you long press the play/pause buttons a menu appears that lets you select resume all/pause all.