First I must say I'm impressed with 2.1rc1. You really added some very useful features and fixed many annoyances, and it seems much more responsive now. I'm particularly happy to see the feed reader (although it has gone buggy in the last few days, KTorrent crashes when I load it).


Now I have an idea for a new feature, that I'd think it would be cool if you looked in to after 2.1 is stable.

I use torrent transfers a lot, and it is very inconvenient to have hundreds of torrents loaded in any BitTorrent client. Still, I often want to reseed many torrents or for any other reason re-open them after a while, sometimes many months later. But to browse trackers for that torrent you downloaded weeks or months ago, and to add them to the exact location on your hard drive is very boring work when it's a matter of dozens of torrents each time.

So, I would like to see some kind of Unload feature as opposed to Remove. Imagine an Unload entry in the context menu that just saves the torrent file and status some place safe, and since there's plenty of space in the new sidebar there could be an Unloaded torrents tab there. Then, you could easily reload them later.

Hope you like the idea. I don't think any other BitTorrent client has this, but it would be great for me.

Here's some other things I'd also like to see, which I think is easier to develop:

1. It would be VERY useful with a filter search field for the list of torrents. Can't imagine why that hasn't been implemented yet.

2. In ~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent , torrent files and/or their directories should have some hint of what they are in the name. Now, the dirs have names like "tor69", but if they instead had names like "tor-Chemistry Complete" it would be much easier to manually fix stuff that sometimes misbehaves in KTorrent.

Thanks for a great app!

mirshafie wrote:First I must say I'm impressed with 2.1rc1. You really added some very useful features and fixed many annoyances, and it seems much more responsive now. I'm particularly happy to see the feed reader (although it has gone buggy in the last few days, KTorrent crashes when I load it).

A backtrace would be nice, so that we can take a look at the crashes.

Now I have an idea for a new feature, that I'd think it would be cool if you looked in to after 2.1 is stable.

I use torrent transfers a lot, and it is very inconvenient to have hundreds of torrents loaded in any BitTorrent client. Still, I often want to reseed many torrents or for any other reason re-open them after a while, sometimes many months later. But to browse trackers for that torrent you downloaded weeks or months ago, and to add them to the exact location on your hard drive is very boring work when it's a matter of dozens of torrents each time.

So, I would like to see some kind of Unload feature as opposed to Remove. Imagine an Unload entry in the context menu that just saves the torrent file and status some place safe, and since there's plenty of space in the new sidebar there could be an Unloaded torrents tab there. Then, you could easily reload them later.

We could add a special group named inactive or hidden, so that if you make torrents a member of this group, they would not be shown in any other group.

That would make them pretty much disappear. And it would look like they are unloaded.

Hope you like the idea. I don't think any other BitTorrent client has this, but it would be great for me.

Here's some other things I'd also like to see, which I think is easier to develop:

1. It would be VERY useful with a filter search field for the list of torrents. Can't imagine why that hasn't been implemented yet.

Not many people have asked for this. I guess if you only have a couple of torrents, this is not really needed. I guess we can add this to the todo list.

2. In ~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent , torrent files and/or their directories should have some hint of what they are in the name. Now, the dirs have names like "tor69", but if they instead had names like "tor-Chemistry Complete" it would be much easier to manually fix stuff that sometimes misbehaves in KTorrent.

We'll see, I must admit, that it is sometimes handy not to have to ls -l the torX/cache directory.

George wrote:We could add a special group named inactive or hidden, so that if you make torrents a member of this group, they would not be shown in any other group.

That would make them pretty much disappear. And it would look like they are unloaded.

Yeah, thats what we want. Another name might be "Archive"?