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First of all, I am going to apologize in advance for what I
know will sound like yet another whiny screed from someone who has never posted before. I only recently discovered ktorrent, and I do appreciate its many features (and all of the work it took to get the project where it is now). I will also make a second apology in case some of my complaints stem from my own ignorance. I (even more recently) upgraded from 2.2.8 to the version 3 series (basically 3.2.5 now). This brought a number of disappointments. First of all, the bandwidth scheduler seems much harder to use now - primarily setting it up (very easy in the version 2 series), but even more important, I can't find an easy way of turning it off temporarily (which also was very easy in the version 2 series - a direct "enable" in the configuration dialogs). Turning the plugin off has no effect. Also (quite strangely), simply checking a box for a plugin in the configuration dialog alters the interface for its activation without requiring any further confirmation - the "apply" button appears permanently grayed out, and the "cancel" button doesn't cancel - it merely closes the dialog box, as if one had pressed the "ok" button. My second major area of frustration concerns the info widget plugin. Does some way exist to remove some of the columns in the "peers" tab. I don't have an interest in all of them, and I would like to remove a few so that everything will fit in the width of the window (I believe that version 3 added a couple of new fields). Version 3 also (unfortunately, in my opinion) stopped sorting the ip addresses (also in the peers tab) correctly. It now, for example, puts 200.0.0.1 ahead of 21.0.0.1 (ugh!). II did try version 3.3-rc1, but it was completely unusable. The program kept taking up an increasing amount of cpu, and would always crash after a few hours of use. Also, regarding 3.3, I noticed that the program did reverse dns lookups for peers, and reports them (where possible) by name rather than by ip address. For those (including me) with poor network connectivity, it seems like a complete waste of bandwidth (meaning that it doesn't accomplish anything useful), and again takes up an excessive amount of width on the display. I consider this more important than anything else I have mentioned, and strongly request a way for users to disable this. Thank you for all of your work on ktorrent, and especially for any consideration you might give my criticism. |
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What is so difficult about setting it up ? The old 2.2 interface was pretty limited, seeing that you could only work with hours, so changing it to support minutes required a complete redesign. As for disabling it temporarely, that it is something we should add.
It seems we are not restoring the normal limits when the plugin is unloaded, will fix that before 3.3 is released.
Moot point, plugin selection is no longer in the settings dialog.
Making the peers tab column configurable is on the TODO list. Getting back to the old IP address sorting is problematic because you can now also have hostnames and IPv6 addresses in that column.
That is fixed
Settings -> Advanced -> Resolve hostnames of peers |
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I just had a terrible time with it. Clicking in a box with a schedule seems to randomly move either the start time or end time to that moment (but only on that day - not on all of the days set up together). I also liked the old color scheme better (yes, I know I can change it). It's far from intuitive what "drag and drop" (something I don't think much of anyway) does. I do have schedules for every hour of the week (and sometimes trying to change something gave me an error message about something already scheduled at the "new" time). I do appreciate the desire to support minutes (even though it is not something I care about at all).
Fixing/restoring that would be great
I am sure I don't understand the difficulty of this. My gut reaction is something like "well, why can't you just copy the code from the torrents window?"
I (as stated before) don't think much of the idea of putting hostnames there. I didn't consider the possibility of mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Actually, it is not that difficult (just choose to do something like list all of the IPv4 addresses and then the IPv6 addresses), but I can understand why it would not exactly be a high priority.
Only in the repository? Will there be an rc2 (I would try that)? Any guesses on a release date for 3.3?
I completely missed that. Sorry. Thank you for your long and detailed reply. |
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