a few ideas, but some of them might have been posted before..

- Able to set share-ratio per RSS feed, manual downloads gets the default ratio but the RSS feed can override this.
- Time since download finished, so you know how long you have been seeding it.
- Automatic cleanup of RSS-downloaded torrents after X hours/days
- Global upload-slot limit and upload-slot sharing between torrents. This way you could set the upload-slots to 40 for all torrents and never have to tune it if you start to seed more torrents on the system. torrent*upload-slots is a bit bad, especially for those on slow uplinks.
- If you set max connections per torrent to 256 and global connections to 256 rearrange it so it will balance the number of connections per torrent so not one torrent can 'steal' all the connections.
- Seed-rank so it will seed the torrents with the least seeds and most lechers and also recalculate the seed-rank.
- Some minimal cmdline automation like create/import torrents to seed/download. Would make it easier to do some scripting for automatic torrent creation and seeding. I know that you can do this via manually creating a torrent and importing the data to the download-folder and then adding the torrent to the auto-import folder, but it would be much better if it did not require any additional software for this.

Just some ideas from the idea-master

All very interesting, but 2.2beta1 is just around the corner (package is being prepared), so I would not expect this stuff in 2.2.

Maybe if ktorrent were on sourceforge or a similar service, we could keep all these feature requests, suggestions, and bugs in a nice tracking system so that they wouldn't be forgotten ...

dobes_vandermeer wrote:Maybe if ktorrent were on sourceforge or a similar service, we could keep all these feature requests, suggestions, and bugs in a nice tracking system so that they wouldn't be forgotten ...

It's called bugs.kde.org ...

It would be nice to have a "% Available" for the torrent in addition to "% Complete". The bar in the "Status" tab is quite nice and it's easy enough to see how much of the data a given peer has in the "Peers" tab, but an actual number for the overall availability would be nice. That could be added in the main window as well as in the "Files" tab.

A related change that would be nice is if the folders in the "Files" tab showed the "% Complete" (and "% Available") for all the files they contain instead of just showing it for each file. Personally, I find it irritating to have to open each folder to see how much of its files have been downloaded. It's not a big deal, but it would be a nice improvement to add percentages to the folders as well. It might even be something that would be quick and easy to change (I certainly hope so. I hate throwing new ideas at you that take up a lot your development time). You already have the totals sizes of their contents, so I would think that adding the percentages to the folders wouldn't be too hard.

I hope that one of these days I'll actuallly have time to poke around at KTorrent's code and help you out. Maybe I'll have time this summer. In any case, thanks for all your hard work. KTorrent is the best torrent client that I've tried and it's only getting better.

Hi,

I love ktorrent, I have been using it for quite some time now and there's a feature that I like which is to look at avi files with right clicking on the torrent.

Now this only works with .avi and not with .mkv, so every time I want to watch a .mkv I have to select the application but there's no settings to remember my preferences. Any chance to implement this ?

Thanks a lot for a really good torrent program.

Does it open with your program of choice if you click on a .mkv file in konqueror? You should be able to set up file associations in kcontrol or by right clicking on file, choosing properties and clicking on a spanner.

I would like to see a more robust RSS reader. As of right now, it can not handle feeds from private sites, those with usernames and passwords, IDs, etc.

sid32 wrote:I would like to see a more robust RSS reader. As of right now, it can not handle feeds from private sites, those with usernames and passwords, IDs, etc.

Some of the issue I'm sure would be solved by importing cookies from common browsers: firefox, konqueror, opera, etc. The only issue past that is if the site uses session cookies or ones with any limit that is met too quickly, so maybe some login automation available that is able to post data to certain fields. Sounds like it might make a good plugin in it's own right to be added to search and RSS.

Then again, it's nice when the sites themselves are less aggravating with their feeds so that they work in any feed reader.

Lucke : Yes I changed the properties from kaffeine to mplayer in konqueror a long time ago so it doesn't seem to come from that. I changed the preferences back to kaffeine but it doesn't work in ktorrent, I still have to select the program every time I wanna watch a video.

Ruthenium wrote:Lucke : Yes I changed the properties from kaffeine to mplayer in konqueror a long time ago so it doesn't seem to come from that. I changed the preferences back to kaffeine but it doesn't work in ktorrent, I still have to select the program every time I wanna watch a video.

Are you sure you set it up for the correct file type ?

Well, when I right click on a .mkv in konqueror, then go to properties and then click on the config icon I get :

*.mkv
*.MKV

Description
Video Matroska

programs
mplayer
kaffeine

I can watch the videos fine in mplayer when using konqueror and those are the same that I download with ktorrent. For example I download name.mkv with ktorrent, if I wanna watch a preview ktorrent asks me to choose with what program it should open the file....but If I click on the .mkv in konqueror it launches mplayer with no problem...

Am I the only one experiencing this ?

I'm using Kubuntu feisty fawn by the way.

OK, can you try the latest SVN version ?

How about a way (plugin possibly) that detects if the user is present or not (boinc, gaim idle, screensaver, etc.) to stop using as much, or all, of the resources, either by pausing everything like the scheduler does or by similar means. This would help if the computer suffered from too many open connections or bandwidth usage.

You could simply write some small script that checks whether xscreensaver (or whatever) is active and sets ktorrent's max download/upload limit via dcop (dbus in the future).