Comments on: KGet - KDE’s Download Manager

By: Smith

Smith — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing this nice tool.

I’d rate GetGo Download Manager first on my list. It is an actively updated download manager/accelerator designed to maximize the efficiency of your broadband internet connection.

http://www.sharewarecheap.com/GetGo-Download-Manager_software_2693.html

By: Gunni

Gunni — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:18:57 +0000

Just as i read about aria2 as downloadmanager i searched for a kde program.
Found this site, and will try kget when i am at home.
Some things came to my mind that seem useful (and some seem to be included in aria2), and i just write them down so they wont get lost till end of work, as i did not try kget yet, maybe they are already there:
- If you add a new download with the same filename, but different location, would be nice to have the option to add that source to a running download on-the-fly, and then the file gets downloaded from multiple sources (same for torrents will also be good)
- Downloading files and let them be uploaded as torrents would also be great for the overall torrent downloads.

By: sharewarecheap

sharewarecheap — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:26:45 +0000

it is good,thank you very much,i like using it.before this,i have been using NeoDownloader ,it also a very great download manager.from now on,i will use this two.

By: Francis

Francis — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:36:11 +0000

No.

By: jazran

jazran — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:35:45 +0000

does it split the download files(to make the download faster?)?

By: Francis

Francis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:05:44 +0000

Martin: You’re very right, and that change has already been made in SVN by now.

By: Ant Bryan

Ant Bryan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:27:39 +0000

thanks, Francis! I love KGet. I think most people have no idea it supports Metalink so this helps a lot.

I’d love to see KDE & openSUSE use them more.

By: Martin S.

Martin S. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:48:32 +0000

I really think the new look is much improved, but the filter by extension dialog is a little wrong:

You say: “you can specify a regexp for the extension”. This is wrong *.jpg is not a regexp (that would be .*\.jpg$), so I’d say: “You can also specify wildcards for the extension”

By: Thomas Coopman

Thomas Coopman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:39:41 +0000

Looks very cool!

I would also love the feature to save to location by name (using whildcards)
for example everything with kde in it’s name. (I would post this to bugs.kde.org but it is down for the moment)

By: René Leonhardt

René Leonhardt — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:47:59 +0000

Very good job, KGet 4 looks like a real gem!

If anyone wants to try Metalinks, a very convenient way to create them is to use the Metalink Library:

# Create *.iso.metalink and *.iso.torrent from local files
metalink.py –version=10.3 –create-torrent=http://tracker.opensuse.org:6969/announce *.iso

http://code.google.com/p/metalink-library/