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kget - a great idea with trouble

damir

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Thursday, July 15th 2004, 7:40pm

kget - a great idea with trouble

Kget and the idea to have a download-manager for kde respectively konqueror is really great, but the realisation of this idea is, not finished

wget is great, but it's more confortable to simply have the links listened in konqueror (the new button to show the list in konqueror that was implemented since 3.2.x) and simply tell kget to download it

kget is missing some features, but this is minor trouble, the main trouble is that kget uses too much resources doing "nothing" (the "100% bugs")

thoughts? ideas?
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Thursday, July 15th 2004, 10:28pm

I've never come across this 100% bug before ... and you say it is missing features .... well like what?

I mean I guess the one thing I would like to see if some way to control the amount of bandwidth each download uses. For example you could either set each download a priority .. so high priority downloads can eat more bandwidth than low/normal i.e. kget figures out how much bandwidth to assign a download depending its priority. Or you could manually say you want it to download at this speed maximum on this download or something along them lines if you get what I am saying .. that would be pretty neat.
If you can do that already I just not noticed I guess.

Also maybe a feature so files with certain extensions are sent to a certain dir unless you say otherwise.

I don't know .... just throwing out a few ideas that hopefully someone else can improve on ... especially since I think my file extension idea is pretty flimsy lol.

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Friday, July 16th 2004, 1:34am

Usually a discussion like this that generally appears from a frustrated user (like me) normally endes up in "How bad kget is or is not".

So I will just say that would like to use kget (or its features in the Progress dialogs of KDE) but for now I use wget. I think that I found every "100% CPU bug" that it has (but only reported the bug once before stopping using it).