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When you press Preferences button in the toolbar or choose same item from the main menu, this dialog will open and allow you to set various Caitoo options.
If Caitoo can't login into the server, it will stop attempting and schedule it for retrying after some time. For this you have to set interval - reconnect after X minutes and number of retries.
If some connection error occurs while downloading, Caitoo will automatically pause all affected transfers ( because of error ) and resume them again ( well not all, only those which can resume, others are only paused ).
When this is set, Caitoo will resume transfers without asking ( normally it would open dialog asking whether overwrite or resume ). If transfer cannot be resumed, dialog will appear anyway.
These are the intervals, after which when no data arrives, Caitoo will pause transfer and resume it again. The second value is meant for transfers which cannot resume. Of course that this value should be bigger then the first one.
Here you can set what type of connection to Internet you have. This is needed, so that Caitoo can automatically activate / disactivate Offline mode. This feature will be probably most useful for users with dial-up connection.For successful use of this function, you need to now the network interface that is used for your Internet connection.
If you are sure, that you are always online, you can select Permanent in the combo box. With this choice, Caitoo will not check for the connection, but rather assume that you are always online. However, you can still activate offline mode manually ( see below ).
Users with other types of connection might want to set select something else. Easy way of finding out what kind of interface is your network using is an utility ifconfig.
Simple output in the shell might look like this :
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0./configureYou can see that first two letters are lo. This is short for loopback interface, which is always running on most systems. The output will probably look like this when you are disconnected from Internet. After connecting to Internet, you might see also another entry, which starts e.g with ppp0 or sl1. These two stand for PPP interface number 0 or SLIP interface number 1. Now you would now, what your connection interface is, and you can set it in the combo box.
Turn this on when you want Caitoo to be in offline mode. In this mode, you can use Caitoo to create lists of transfers, while actually not downloading anything. It's useful when you are browsing stuff offline, but still want to create transfer list. There is also a toolbar button for quick access to this function.
If you need to connect to Internet via proxy, you can turn on option Use Proxy.
Type in your proxy server and desired port.
In No proxy for line specify servers, for which you don't want to use proxy.
Please note that ftp proxy doesn't work yet and also http proxy is only experimental and might not work always as expected.
This is interval after which the transfer list gets saved into the config file.
If this is set, Caitoo will automatically disconnect from Internet when all queued transfers are finished. It doesn't care about scheduled transfer. However, when you schedule transfer, you probably have other type of connection then PPP link and you don't need this option. This option can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
Warning !!!
If you want Caitoo to disconnect automatically ( without confirmation ), you need to also turn on the Expert mode !
Specify here a command for disconnecting from internet. Preset is "kppp -k" , which will stop running kppp. You can of course use anything else, e.g. "killall pppd".
If this is set, Caitoo will automatically quit when all transfers are finished. This time it cares about scheduled transfer. If there is anything scheduled, Caitoo won't quit. This option can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
If this is set, Caitoo will automatically paste URL's from clipboard. There will be no need to press Paste button, just copy some URL into the clipboard and it will be pasted automatically. This option can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
Caitoo will keep this number of simultaneously downloading files. This means that Caitoo will not download more then this number of files in the same time.
This feature is not yet supported.
This feature is not yet supported.
You can choose whether the new transfers should be added as queued and thus automatically started, or as delayed, which is better when working offline.
If this is set, Caitoo will open progress windows for started transfer. You can even choose to start it iconified. This option is good if you e.g. want to watch the progress of some transfer without opening the main window. Iconified window will show progress in the task bar.
When this is set, Caitoo will add a special extension .part to all downloading files. Caitoo will remove the extension after the successful download. This way you know whether the file was downloaded OK or not. This option is set on by default.
Turn this option off, if you want finished transfers to stay in the list. They will have a special status icon. This is needed if you want to do some statistics about downloaded files.
When turned on, Caitoo will for all added transfers get their sizes first and display them in the list. This way you will know the size of the file before downloading it.
This mode is for experienced users. For explanation see Expert mode. This mode can be toggled more easily from the toolbar.
In this section you can setup default directories for different file extensions. Each line in the list contains a pair : file extension and directory.
Buttons allow you to add, delete and change entries in the list.
You can use wildcards in the the extension field to specify various file types.
When the new transfer is added, the file extension is compared to the entries in this list. Caitoo keeps the order, so put more global entries ( like * ) to the end of the list.
When Caitoo doesn't find the matching extension, it will use the current directory.
Toolbar button Use last directory can be used to temporarily disable the directory settings. When it is set, Caitoo will put the file into the directory used for the last transfer added.
If this is set, Caitoo will play sounds when one of the four events occur :
- transfer was added to the list
- transfer has started
- transfer has finished
- all transfers have finished
This way you do not have to watch the Caitoo window ( you can leave it docked into panel, so that it does not take any place on the screen ) and Caitoo will notify you when transfers are added / started / finished. If you cannot use sound - leave this option disabled. Caitoo comes with four default sounds for these events. If you don't like supplied sounds, you can of course change them. Choose sound for change in the combo box, change it by pressing Change button and test it with Test button. In order to use sound you have to start kaudioserver first. It comes with KDE distribution and normally it is already started from startkde script. You can toggle this option also from the main menu.
If this is set, Caitoo will animate status icons in the listbox and also use animation in the docked widget. You can toggle this option also from the main menu.
Here you can set, how will Caitoo appear on the screen. It can be either as a normal window, dock widget or drop target. See Screen fundamentals for more details on each type.
This toggle is for selecting between two styles of docking or drop target.
When it is on, dock widget or drop target behave like in Windows 9x. When you click on them, they will undock / change into the normal Caitoo window.
The second way is the same as it was in the former versions of Caitoo. Clicking on dock widget or drop target will show / hide normal Caitoo window, while still being docked or shown as drop target.
Use font dialog to set your favourite font for a listbox.
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