George wrote:

2. Opportunity to seed read-only files (maybe discussed too).

Already in

What does it mean? I have latest version 2.1.2 installed and it can't seed files on read-only volumes.

4. "Properties" command to context menu of torrent with static info from fields of torrent-file (comment, contents etc).

Is there really a need for this ? Other then the comments all information about a torrent is already shown.

OK, just to add comment field to information tab. Because often trackers put the torrent-page URL into comment. Of course, URL in comments have to be openned in browser by one click.

1. Column "PRIORITY" in main window that torrents can be sorted by that parameter too (priority is taken from QueueManager).
Right now is possible to sort torrents by every other thing except they download order.

alSee wrote:What does it mean? I have latest version 2.1.2 installed and it can't seed files on read-only volumes.

It means that it is part of the latest development code, and will be in the 2.2 release.

George wrote:

alSee wrote:What does it mean? I have latest version 2.1.2 installed and it can't seed files on read-only volumes.

It means that it is part of the latest development code, and will be in the 2.2 release.

I've just installed last SVN (2.2dev-2007-03-24) which have in changelog:

Code: Select all

- Added support for seeding from readonly filesystems


But there's the same on trying to seed from R/O volume I get message:
"Can't open xxxx : Read-only file system"

Colin wrote:This is (I think) a pretty modest suggestion:

I create .torrent files on a regular basis and nearly always use the same announce URL. It would be very useful if KT could remember the last five or so and display them in a drop-down menu under the input field.

Thanks for considering this and keep up the excellent work.

I second this.

Usually we deal with few trackers (1 to 3, 4, 5?), and it would be very convenient (and user-friendly ) if KT could remember {last,mostly}-used trackers' announce URLs, so we were able to choose them from a drop-down list menu instead of writing them manually.

Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure if this is already pending for the next version, but I often browse my files without really being aware of which ones are finished downloading and which aren't, partly because I download using RSS. It would be great if incomplete files had a special suffix, like .!kt, or something like that.

Also, if you could select a torrent a MOVE all of its files somewhere, that would get around the problem I have currently where all my downloads end up in the same folder but I want them in another one. I could go in later and ask ktorrent to move all the files to the correct location. Currently I use cp -al to create hard links at the correct location without interrupting seeding, which works OK, but it'd be nice to avoid the command prompt and also to just have one "copy" of the files around.

dobes_vandermeer wrote:Also, if you could select a torrent a MOVE all of its files somewhere, that would get around the problem I have currently where all my downloads end up in the same folder but I want them in another one. I could go in later and ask ktorrent to move all the files to the correct location. Currently I use cp -al to create hard links at the correct location without interrupting seeding, which works OK, but it'd be nice to avoid the command prompt and also to just have one "copy" of the files around.

That feature is under development

There is not a option to display the date the torrent was add, in the torrent list, this would be handy.

Also duration and such would be cool but not really needed, however I would like to order my torrents by date added but can't

Thanks

Row

Row wrote:There is not a option to display the date the torrent was add, in the torrent list, this would be handy.

Also duration and such would be cool but not really needed, however I would like to order my torrents by date added but can't

Row

Which reminds me, I've been thinking it might be handy to allow deleting a torrent after seeding for X days. Deleting the actual files after X days has popped into my mind, too (e.g. for RSS-downloaded TV shows).

Maybe I'm making too many suggestions now and I'm starting to be officially obligated to start doing some coding. Is the code-base easy to get started on?

When downloading individual files from a torrent and deselects whole directories, the directories them self seems to be created but not the files? I expect the dirs not to be created when deselected in the files dialog. Or have I simply done something wrong?

kTorrent 2.1.2

Add a "Default download directory" option instead of suggesting the latest used one.

Some of the settings need better explanation of what they do, for example Memory Usage, what exactly does it change and how will it affect me?

Made a list for better overview;

Confirmed/Added/Will land for 2.2
1. When KTorrent was still using tabs, their labels showed the number of torrents in the current view. I really miss these counters. There are none present in KTorrent at the moment, right? Anyway at least a simple torrent counter (or perhaps some other statistics about the torrents in the selected group) would be cool.

2. Some usability improvements within the Groups functionality (and why is there only one button "Groups" in the most left side of main window, the space under could be used for some of the actual groups like Downloads and Uploads).

3. When you choose "File" tab you can see details of each file download. You have some info columns there and you can sort files by pressing column name. But Ktorrent does not remember sorting or column width.

4. Option to move completed torrents to user specified directory (on a per torrent basis) and of course continue seeding from the new place.

5. Add an option for selecting kTorrent to start minimized to tray or not.
When chosen to start in tray, as now - fix the annoying flicker, the window shows and then disappears for a fraction of a second.

6. Opportunity to seed read-only files.

Commented, but no info about development
7. It would be great if incomplete files had a special suffix, like .!kt, or something like that.

8. Speed graph to see how stable upload/download goes.

9. What about an estimated upload time (when an upload ratio is set)?

10. And about the shutdown - why not make the tray icon disappear immediately even if the communication with the trackers (or whatever) take some time - make it appear that the exit is instant - or maybe add a symbol to the tray icon showing that kTorrent is shutting down.

11. I would love to see some kind of a QOS priority for torrents.
Some torrents I would prefer to seed more then others, I would love if I could somehow set:
"If someone wants this torrent devote XYZ % of the max upload traffic, otherwise share everything else equally"

12. Faster upstart and shutdown (shutdown time seems to have increased from around 1 second in 2.0.3 to 10+ in 2.1)

13. Improved speed bars, with graphical style like amaroks track played time and using some average values for the last minutes or so. And also using the same bandwidth limits as used in global settings.

14. I run ktorrent on a box which I am usually away from, and hence I rarely if ever see the "file completed" dialog. I would like it very much if KT could send me an email when it finishes a downloading file.

Unseen/Uncommented
15. Add a "Default download directory" option instead of suggesting the latest used one.

16. Some of the settings need better explanation of what they do, for example Memory Usage, what exactly does it change and how will it affect me?

17. Improving the torrents list, Maybe each torrent could take up two lines much like the download manager in Firefox. My screen isn't wide enough to show all information horizontally but there is lot of space vertically even when downloading and seeding 15 torrents. Perhaps two different views?

18. Remove or redesign the way queue manager work, hard to understand and pretty "unsmart" - it needs to understand if all the active torrents are stalled and start downloading others.

19. Quick filter in KTorrent. When having lots and lots of torrents open.

20. A list or Manager where we can view the peers (IPs) which I have add to the session IP filter list

21. Column "PRIORITY" in main window that torrents can be sorted by that parameter too (priority is taken from QueueManager). Right now is possible to sort torrents by every other thing except they download order.

22.It would be very useful if KT could remember the last five or so announce URLs when creating torrents and display them in a drop-down menu under the input field.

Please update us on the status of ideas!

Great job making this list!

I think we (George and myself) should edit this post when we add some feature stating it's completed or something.