transmission Feat: Sequential Download + "Download first and last pieces" GUI toggle for all frontends

What is the issue?

Edit: now that https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795 and https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/6893 have been opened, we should consolidate both sequential download and "download first and last pieces first" under 1 toggle to keep the GUI simple across all clients.

Please add a "PR welcome" tag to this.

Which application of Transmission?

Qt, GTK, Mac, WebUI

Which version of Transmission?

N/A

Nov 15 '23 03:11 Pentaphon

Now there are some ..

Nov 15 '23 10:11 killemov

Started a PR for web client https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/6681

Mar 10 '24 12:03 hluup

Started a PR for web client

@hluup would it be possible for you to include "download first and last pieces first" alongside sequential download per the edit in the OP for your WEBUI PR? I think that since Transmission generally keeps to having a simple UI, we should consolidate both functions under a single GUI toggle to keep the GUI simple.

Jun 07 '24 00:06 Pentaphon

Does this mean that transmission is going to download only a certain amount at the end, so you can have the metadata and then just download sequentially from A to Z, or is it going to download the whole file from A to Z and from Z to A at the same time? The later seems like a waste of speed.

Jun 24 '24 20:06 IfSheDiesSheDies

@IfSheDiesSheDies it means the former. Let's say it has 1000 pieces. It will download piece 1 and piece 1000 and then piece 2, 3, 4 and so on.

Jun 25 '24 05:06 Pentaphon