After reading the feedback on kde-apps.org as well as discovering how awesome KTorrent is, I’ve added some features to Autotorrent that should make it much more useful for people. First, I added support for other torrent programs, and I was able to make the KTorrent support really nice using DCOP. Basically, it means that once you have a default directory set up, Autotorrent can silently add torrents without popping up the “OMG DO YOU WANT TO SAVE THIS?!” dialog.

This dialog isn’t very pretty but that’s alright

Next, after learning some basic QtRuby, I managed to make a decent configuration dialog. It’s not very well spaced and it was a giant pain-in-the-ass to get what I wanted done, probably because I’m used to the GTK+ way of doing things, particularly when it comes to signals and slots. I’m totally biased, but I think the Qt way just involves a lot of extra declarations and isn’t nearly as Ruby-like as Ruby-GNOME2

Update: PS here’s where you can download Autotorrent. Oops.