first off, I love ktorrent. I've used it for well over 3 years now, to download many many gigs. I have just one feature request / gripe for you. I apologize if it's being addressed and I just didn't notice, or if this is the wrong place to bring it up.

The plasmoid needs some TLC. It's received half its needed preparation, and sent out into the world. Like a brilliant grade school graduate trying to work for CERN, it's got potential, but it needs some more work. I don't want it to replace the main interface, I just ask that it have some interactivity (start/stop buttons), and the ability to show more than one torrent at a time (pretty please). You could even make several different plugins- single torrent, controls, and group viewer (to show a group of torrents).

another nice addition would be the ability to drag a torrent to the desktop to make it spawn a plasmoid for that torrent (for that torrent, or that group for multiple torrents)

many thanks for your attention

The drag to desktop should work with KDE 4.3 and later.