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When you press Preferences button in the toolbar or choose same item from the main menu, this dialog will open and allow you to set various KGet options.
- On login or timeout error
- If KGet can't login into the server, it will stop attempting and schedule it for retrying after some time. For this you have to set interval - reconnect after X minutes and number of retries.
- On broken connection
- If some connection error occurs while downloading, KGet will automatically pause all affected transfers ( because of error ) and resume them again ( well not all, only those which can resume, others are only paused ).
- Automatically resume
- When this is set, KGet will resume transfers without asking ( normally it would open dialog asking whether overwrite or resume ). If transfer cannot be resumed, dialog will appear anyway.
These are the intervals, after which when no data arrives, KGet will pause transfer and resume it again. The second value is meant for transfers which cannot resume. Of course that this value should be bigger then the first one.
- Auto save file list
- This is interval after which the transfer list gets saved into the config file.
- Auto disconnect
- If this is set, KGet will automatically disconnect from Internet when all queued transfers are finished. It doesn't care about scheduled transfer. However, when you schedule transfer, you probably have other type of connection then PPP link and you don't need this option.
- This option can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
- Disconnect command
- Specify here a command for disconnecting from internet. Preset is "kppp -k" , which will stop running kppp. You can of course use anything else, e.g. "killall pppd".
- Auto shutdown
- If this is set, KGet will automatically quit when all transfers are finished. This time it cares about scheduled transfer. If there is anything scheduled, KGet won't quit.
- This option can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
- Maximum number of opened connections
- KGet will keep this number of simultaneously downloading files. This means that KGet will not download more then this number of files in the same time.
- Start transfer only if network bandwidth is more then
- This feature is not yet supported.
- Keep the maximum bandwidth taken by transfer at
- This feature is not yet supported.
- Add new transfers as
- You can choose whether the new transfers should be added as queued and thus automatically started, or as delayed, which is better when working offline.
- Show download windows
- If this is set, KGet will open progress windows for started transfer. You can even choose to start it iconified. This option is good if you e.g. want to watch the progress of some transfer without opening the main window. Iconified window will show progress in the task bar.
- Mark partial downloads
- When this is set, KGet will add a special extension .part to all downloading files. KGet will remove the extension after the successful download. This way you know whether the file was downloaded OK or not.
- This option is set on by default.
- Remove the file from the list after success
- Turn this option off, if you want finished transfers to stay in the list. They will have a special status icon. This is needed if you want to do some statistics about downloaded files.
- Get file sizes
- When turned on, KGet will for all added transfers get their sizes first and display them in the list. This way you will know the size of the file before downloading it.
- Expert mode
- This mode is for experienced users. For explanation see Expert mode.
- This mode can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
- Use Sounds
- If this is set, KGet will play sounds when one of the three special events occur :
- some transfer is finished
- all transfers are finished
- scheduled transfer is started
- This way you do not have to watch the KGet window ( you can leave it docked into panel, so that it does not take any place on the screen ) and KGet will notify you when transfers are finished / started. If you cannot use sound - leave this option disabled. KGet comes with three default sounds for these events.
- If you don't like supplied sounds, you can of course change them. Choose sound for change in the combo box, change it by pressing Change button and test it with Test button.
- In order to use sound you have to start kaudioserver first. It comes with KDE distribution and normally it is already started from startkde script.
- You can toggle this option also from the main menu.
- Use Animation
- If this is set, KGet will animate status icons in the listbox and also use animation in the docked widget.
- You can toggle this option also from the main menu.
- Dock into the panel
- If this is set, KGet will dock into the panel. You can then click on the docked widget to show / hide the main window.
- This behaviour can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
- Font
- Use font dialog to set your favourite font for listbox.
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