Bug 273947

Summary:	Add option to stop seeding or move on while seeding after download is complete
Product:	[Applications] kget	Reporter:	Ray Rashif <schiv>
Component:	torrent	Assignee:	KGet authors <kget>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ryanskingsbury
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ray Rashif 2011-05-23 10:51:55 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.3) 
OS:                Linux

Currently a torrent download will continue to download (seed) after it has completed (leeching).

This is problematic if there is a queue, especially a queue of 1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download torrent
2. Open torrent with kget
3. Set download queue to 1
4. Download something else

Actual Results:  
Download does not move on to the next in queue (if within the limit set) when the torrent has completed leeching but is still seeding.

Expected Results:  
Download stops seeding and continues on to the next download in the list, or continues seeding but starts the next download once the leeching has completed (in this case a "number of seeds" queue may be necessary).

While ktorrent exists for advanced functionality, the feature described herein is fundamental to downloading torrents and should be available in a basic torrent client.

Comment 1 Ryan K 2014-09-17 02:51:56 UTC

+1 for this feature; I get the same behavior in KDE 4.14.3.

It's impossible to download a queue of torrents if you have the "Maximum transfers per group" set because, as far as kget is concerned, a torrent never "finishes", it just starts seeding.

I'd suggest that once finished, the next download in the queue is automatically started (while the finished torrent begins seeding). As the OP said, perhaps a separate limit for the number of seeds per group would be helpful too.