KTorrent - BitTorrent Client
KTorrent is a bittorrent application for KDE which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol. It enables you to run multiple torrents at the same time and comes with extended features to make it a full-featured client for BitTorrent.
Features
- Queuing of torrents
- Global and per torrent speed limits
- Previewing of certain file types, build in (video and audio)
- Importing of partially or fully downloaded files
- File prioritization for multi-file torrents
- Selective downloading for multi-file torrents
- Kick/ban peers with an additional IP Filter dialog for list/edit purposes
- UDP tracker support
- Support for private trackers and torrents
- Support for µTorrent's peer exchange
- Support for protocol encryption (compatible with Azureus)
- Support for creating trackerless torrents
- Support for distributed hash tables (DHT, the Mainline version)
- Support for UPnP to automatically forward ports on a LAN with dynamic assigned hosts
- Support for webseeds
- Scripting support via Kross and interprocess control via DBus interface.
- System tray integration
- Tracker authentication support
- Connection though a proxy
- Scripting support via Kross and interprocess control via DBus interface.
- In addition to the built-in functionality, there are some plugins available for KTorrent.
Developed By
Authors:
- Joris Guisson <joris.guisson@gmail.com>
http://ktorrent.org - Ivan Vasic <ivasic@gmail.com>
- Alan Jones <skyphyr@gmail.com>
BitFinder Plugin - Diego R. Brogna <dierbro@gmail.com>
Webinterface Plugin - Krzysztof Kundzicz <athantor@gmail.com>
Statistics Plugin
Thanks To:
- Mladen Babic <bmladen@EUnet.yu>
Application icon and a couple of others - Adam Treat <treat@kde.org>
- Danny Allen <danny@dannyallen.co.uk>
1.0 application icon - Vincent Wagelaar <vincent@ricardis.tudelft.nl>
- Knut Morten Johansson <knut@johansson.com>
- Felix Berger <bflat1@gmx.net>
ChunkBar's tooltip and IWFileTreeItem sorting - Andreas Kling <kling@impul.se>
- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>
- Maxmind
Country locator for InfoWidget plugin. Flags are taken from http://flags.blogpotato.de/ so thanks to them too.
http://www.maxmind.com/ - Adam Forsyth <agforsyth@gmail.com>
File prioritization and some other patches - Thomas Bernard
Miniupnp was used as an example for our own UPnP implementation
http://miniupnp.free.fr/ - Diego Rosario Brogna
Global max share ratio patch
dierbro@gmail.com - Lesly Weyts
Zeroconf enhancements - Kevin Andre
Zeroconf enhancements
http://users.edpnet.be/hyperquantum/ - Dagur Valberg Johannsson <dagurval@pvv.ntnu.no>
Coldmilk webgui - Alexander Dymo <adymo@kdevelop.org>
IDEAl code from KDevelop - Scott Wolchok <swolchok@umich.edu>
Conversion speed improvement in ipfilter plugin - Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks
Discovered 2 security vulnerabilities (both are fixed) - Goten Xiao
Patch to load silently with a save location - Rapsys
Fixes in PHP code of webinterface - Athantor
XFS specific disk preallocation - twisted_fall <twisted.fall@gmail.com>
Patch to not show very low speeds - Lucke
Patch to show potentially firewalled status - Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
Several patches - Stefan Monov <logixoul@gmail.com>
Patch to hide menu bar - The_Kernel <kernja@cs.earlham.edu>
Patch to change file priorities in the webgui - Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Several webgui patches - Ozzi <ossi@masiina.no-ip.info>
Fixes for several warnings - Markus Brueffer <markus@brueffer.de>
Patch to fix free diskspace calculation on FreeBSD - Lukas Appelhans <l.appelhans@gmx.de>
Patch to fix a crash in ChunkDownloadView - Rickard Närström <rickard.narstrom@gmail.com>
A couple of bugfixes - caruccio <mateus@caruccio.com>
Patch to load torrents silently from the command line - Lee Olson <leetolson@gmail.com>
New set of icons - Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
Drag and drop support for plasma applet - Ian Higginson <xeriouxi@fastmail.fm>
Patch to cleanup the plugin list - Amichai Rothman <amichai@amichais.net>
Patch to make the plasma applet a popup applet - Leo Trubach <leotrubach@gmail.com>
Patch to add support for IP ranges in IP filter dialog - Andrei Barbu <andrei@0xab.com>
Feature which adds the date a torrent was added - Jonas Lundqvist <jonas@gannon.se>
Feature to disable authentication in the webinterface
License
KTorrent is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.

