[Kstars-devel] suggestion

[Akarsh Simha]

2015-12-08 7:31 GMT-06:00 G Blaikie <gblaikie1 at slingshot.co.nz>:
> I am installing KDE KStars for Windows.  I accidentally clicked on USNO
> NOMAD Catalog (Part) not realising (because the size of the download is
> buried in the middle of the text) that it is a 1.4GB download.  There is no
> way that I can see to cancel this download or stop.  Can you please add a
> Cancel or Stop option on the downloads.  Also, could you make the size of
> the downloads CLEARER, especially on large downloads.

Hi

Thank you for your interest in KStars, and thanks for reporting this
issue. The add-on downloader module we use in KStars is not handled by
the KStars team, and so I have filed a bug report against the
appropriate team that handles this issue:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357330

As for the second part, the best that I could do is add a line "Very
large download!" to the description, since the download size is
already mentioned there.

In any case, it seems like this USNO download is a source of a bit of
a trouble and frustration, because KNewStuff (the downloader module)
is not really designed to handle very large downloads. I can't think
of an alternative way of distributing it that is not very complicated,
though.

If you ever need to download it, I recommend you use the following URL
directly with your favorite download tool / web browser:
http://files.kde.org/edu/kstars/download.kde.org/kstars/USNO-NOMAD-1e8-1.0.tar.gz

Regards
Akarsh