Bug 144756

Summary: Bad defaults; ktorrent should be in systray by default.
Product: [Applications] ktorrent Reporter: Thomas Zander <zander>
Component: generalAssignee: Joris Guisson <joris.guisson>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thomas Zander 2007-04-27 16:33:50 UTC 
Version:           2.1 (using KDE 3.5.6, Kubuntu (feisty) 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14)
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.20-15-generic

The big difference between having a systray icon or not is that closing the main window will exit the application if there is no systray icon.

For an application like ktorrent; which will most of the time be open for hours without user interaction, the default should be that it shows itself in the systray.
I can't speak for all users; but I've had new installs and found myself confused every time when I closed the window and 30 min later wanted to figure out how far the download had progressed, unable to find the systray icon.  Concluding that I actually quit the application half an hour ago.

Please make the setting to dock in the systray be enabled per default.
Comment 1 Joris Guisson 2007-04-27 20:06:45 UTC 
SVN commit 658553 by guisson:

Show system tray icon is now enabled by default in config

BUG: 144756



 M  +1 -1      ktorrent.kcfg  


--- trunk/extragear/network/ktorrent/libktorrent/ktorrent.kcfg #658552:658553
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 		</entry>
 		<entry name="showSystemTrayIcon" type="Bool">
 			<label>Show a system tray icon</label>
-			<default>false</default>
+			<default>true</default>
 		</entry>
 		<entry name="showSpeedBarInTrayIcon" type="Bool">
 			<label>Show speed bar in tray icon</label>