Kwooty 1.0.0
(KDE Usenet Application)
A friendly nzb usenet binary downloader.
Kwooty handles automatic file repairing archive extraction, multi-server support, smart par2 download, shutdown scheduler, etc…
How to build the project :
1. untar the archive
> tar xvfz kwooty-1.0.0.tar.gz
2. build and install:
> cd kwooty
> cd build
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config –prefix` ..
> sudo make install OR > su -c ‘make install’
Full changelog is available at http://kwooty.sourceforge.net
Translations are welcome ! 😀
changelog:
Version 1.0.0:
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– Nzb merging feature: if an nzb item is known by user as being incomplete (e.g: missing archives or no par2 files), nzb content can be merged with another item that owns the missing files
– Manual extract can be performed via context menu when post download process options have been disabled in settings (feature request #3565812)
– Categories plugin: added option that allows to manually choose a transfer folder from context menu
– Categories plugin: availability to choose a default transfer folder for all pending downloads
– When download retry is performed, all connections to servers are reestablished in order to ensure that there are no broken connections before retrying downloads
– Segment data cache management enhanced in order to not get any memory contention in case of extremely low disk write speed (Fix bug #3601043)
– In server settings, a warning icon will appear near “Host”, “Login” and “Password” fields if leading or trailing white-space have been detected, in order to notify user about
potential connection issues
– Par2 verifying progress percent is now estimated
– “Start all” / “Pause all” buttons are now properly enabled or disabled according to global download status
– Several code optimizations
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at KDE Apps