UI improvements, iso.gz support

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I finally got around fixing a lot of annoying issues, and now want to share.
This is a patch against rev 46.

Here are the changes:

* ISOs now can be sorted by date too. Useful for people that are constantly
acquiring games, and want to find the newest additions to upload to the
WBFS partition.

* Multiple ISOs can be selected to be added at the same time. Unless an
error occur (not enough space, invalid ISO, or game already present) they
will all be added one after another without confirmation. Useful if you
just formated your WBFS partition and need to add all your games back. Just
select them all, click the add button, and leave it alone until it finishes.

* No longer the progress window is required to be mapped for the transfer
to start. I don't know who was the moron who programmed it that way, but
now it is fixed; the transfer starts even if the progress window is hidden.

* Game sizes are more precise (not just in GB units)

* Support for .iso.gz files. That is, you can now gzip all your compressed
isos so they don't take much more space than the actual game size.
Unfortunately it needs a zlib compiled with 64-bit file offsets, and many
32-bit distros don't enable it by default. So it might be a good idea to
include the zlib sources to the repository, and force it to always build
with 64-bit file offsets. Note: .iso.gz files take some time to start
transferring (while the header is read) but after that the speed is pretty
much the same as a plain .iso file.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 9 Apr 2010 at 3:59

Attachments:

• improvements.patch

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Those are the improvements I've been willing a long time.

How could I add them to my 0.1.12 compilation?

Tks
Gil

Original comment by [e-mail] on 7 Feb 2011 at 11:53

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WBFS filesystems are obsolete now, as is keeping the iso files around. The 
popular loaders all support reading .wbfs files from fat32, ntfs and ext 
filesystems. I use ext4 now, no need to use a special program to manage it.

Original comment by [e-mail] on 8 Feb 2011 at 3:03

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Thanks for the patch! I'll check it and probably add it as soon as I have some 
free time.

Original comment by [e-mail] on 15 Feb 2011 at 5:57

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• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Original comment by [e-mail] on 21 Jul 2012 at 10:52

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