diff --git a/dikte/i18n.py b/dikte/i18n.py
index 9bb7fad..50c497d 100644
--- a/dikte/i18n.py
+++ b/dikte/i18n.py
@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ TR = {
         "İndirildi, sürüm {version}. Vulkan sürümü yoktu, bu sürüm işlemcide çalışıyor.",
     "Fetching the model list…": "Model listesi çekiliyor…",
     "Downloading…": "İndiriliyor…",
+    "Starting the download…": "İndirme başlatılıyor…",
     "Downloading: {done} of {total}{share}": "İndiriliyor: {done} / {total}{share}",
     "Download stopped.": "İndirme durduruldu.",
     "Ready: {name}.": "Hazır: {name}.",
diff --git a/dikte/settings_ui.py b/dikte/settings_ui.py
index 3f32a72..6a98298 100644
--- a/dikte/settings_ui.py
+++ b/dikte/settings_ui.py
@@ -701,12 +701,21 @@ class LocalModelBox(QGroupBox):
     def _download(self):
         if self._downloading:
             self._stop = True
+            # The flag is only read between blocks, and the wait for the server
+            # to answer is not between blocks: a click during it changes
+            # nothing on screen for as long as the connection takes.
+            self.status.setText(t("Stopping…"))
             return
         item = self._current_item()
         if item is None:
             return
         self._downloading, self._stop = True, False
         self._refresh_buttons()
+        # Opening the connection can take ten or twenty seconds, and the first
+        # byte counts are what the line below would otherwise wait for. Left
+        # saying "not downloaded yet" beside a button that now reads Stop, a
+        # download that started looks like a click that did not register.
+        self.status.setText(t("Starting the download…"))
 
         def work():
             try:
diff --git a/tests/test_ui.py b/tests/test_ui.py
index 1324f33..51af17e 100644
--- a/tests/test_ui.py
+++ b/tests/test_ui.py
@@ -1336,6 +1336,28 @@ class LocalModels(DikteTest):
         self.assertIn("10", box.program_label.text())
         self.assertIn("20", box.status.text())
 
+    def test_a_download_says_something_before_the_first_byte(self):
+        # Opening the connection takes ten or twenty seconds, and the byte
+        # counts only start after it. The line underneath still read "has not
+        # been downloaded yet" beside a button that now said Stop, so a
+        # download that had started looked like a click that had not landed.
+        box = self.window(cfg.Config()).local_llm
+        box.load("", "ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF")
+        box.repo.blockSignals(True)
+        box.repo.setCurrentText("ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF")
+        box.repo.blockSignals(False)
+        box._on_listed([("models", [self._item("SmolLM3-Q4_K_M.gguf")],
+                         "ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF")], "")
+        with mock.patch.object(settings_ui.threading, "Thread"):
+            box._download()
+        self.assertIn("Starting", box.status.text())
+        # And the same again for the stop, which is read between blocks and so
+        # not read at all while the connection is still being opened.
+        with mock.patch.object(settings_ui.threading, "Thread"):
+            box._download()
+        self.assertTrue(box._stop)
+        self.assertIn("Stopping", box.status.text())
+
     def test_a_long_model_name_is_not_cut_in_half(self):
         # The list under a combo box takes the box's width and elides what does
         # not fit, in the middle: "ggml-org/Qwen....7B-Base-GGUF".