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Re: properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5



On Thursday, 2016-01-07, 10:23:36, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 06/01/16 01:33 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 2016-01-06, 13:20:13, Gary Dale wrote:
> >> Unfortunately ktorrent simply does not work. I can give it the same
> >> torrent file as KGet and KGet will download the file(s) while ktorrent
> >> reports the download as stalled. I can import a partially downloaded
> >> torrent from kget and ktorrent will show the partial download but fail
> >> to download the rest.
> >> 
> >> Are there any fully functioning torrent managers for KDE?
> > 
> > I always use KTorrent, with magnet links imported through clipboard.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> KTorrent looks like it should be good, but as I said, it fails to
> download anything. I haven't imported magnetic links from clipboard but
> rather opened them directly in ktorrent where they also failed to do
> anything.

I vaguely remember having problems with normal torrent links several years 
back, but since I've already gotten used to using magnet links with 
transmission-qt I am also using these with ktorrent.

But just to check I've clicked the BitTorrent link here [1] and chose to open 
it with ktorrent and the download started as expected.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://grml.org/download/

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