[Kget] kget feature change

Urs Wolfer u.wolfer at bluewin.ch
Sun Oct 23 03:49:27 CEST 2005


On Saturday 22 October 2005 16:13,  Rainer Wirtz wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to slightly change the auto disconnect feature of kget. I would
> find it better when when the state of this feature is not stored.
> It would be better when this feature is always switched off when kget is
> started or switches from offline to online.
>
> Reason:
> I am a modem user and pay by the minute, so I use this feature regularly
> to go offline as soon as a longer download is finished.
> And regularly I want to download a smaller file while surfing and find
> that kget is disconnecting me, when I don't want it to do so.
>
> This is a change to the user interface and when I do this change now,
> kget2 should be changed to show the same behaviour for consistency.
>
> Any comments?

Yes, I think it makes sense.
But: KDE 3.5 is feature frozen. So it's not possible to add this feature for 
the next release. We must wait for KDE 4 (where KGet 2 will replace the old 
KGet). If you like, you can add this feature to KGet2.

Bye
urs



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