Drag/Drop and task list (Suggestion) about directpackageinstaller

[marcussacana]

For Drag&Drop, windows have a limitation (aka protection) that don't allow things be dropped between windows with different privilegies, there are a very hacky trick to circunvem that I used in old builds (before the 6.0 version)
Then the drag&drop it was a removed feature since the new version of the DirectPackageInstaller aims to be multiplataform.
With that said, I'm using higher ports now, and the admin permissions can be optional now for the DirectPackageInstaller.
This mean the Drag&Drop windows Limitation is gone, and seems that the Avalonia support Drag&Drop, then I can give a try maybe: http://reference.avaloniaui.net/api/Avalonia.Input/DragDrop/

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About the task/file list, you can do something like that by selecting multiple files in the file browser dialog, when you do that a hidden menu will apear with a button 'install all', and the DPI will push everything to your PS4.

But there's a limitation with that as well, in others Package Sender tools, you may see a progress watcher and queue features, but since the DirectPackageInstaller don't depends of the Remote Package Installer, who had the feature to send a download progress to the package sender, I can't implement this feature just like that.

This feature should be possible to be done entirely with the DPI server, since the DPI have his own http server and has full control of the server, this mean the DPI can use that to watch the upload progress of the PKG, but it's too early to say anything, since I saw the total data transferer bigger than the real pkg size during the downloads, then some parts of the pkg maybe it was transfered multiple times, this can make the progress watcher harder than the expected.

At this point, became a question of: "For what?"
The download progress can be saw in your PS4, the PS4 was queue as well, if the DPI send everything at the same time a queue will be created, then it is really of worth create a progress watcher feature? I will left this question to anyone reading this.

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It is also worth bearing in mind that the DirectPackageInstaller it was originally made to install packages from remote links instead and one of that features, in particular the 7z/rar support feature tries uses as much RAM as possible for prevent SSD/HD useless IO, he may try reach some few GBs of RAM with a single download, so parallel downloads from RAR is basically not supported, and since isn't possible to solve that since is a optmization instead a bug the DPI it was never planned to do parallel downloads, even if you can.

[marcussacana]

• Drag&Drop Implemented

Abou the task list, as said, I don't think is something that we need since the PS4 already manage your downloads.
But the progress watcher of the download preload when using the Segmented Download is something that I might give a look someday.