KLibido 0.2.5 review

KLibido is a graphical Usenet file grabber for KDE

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Alessandro Bonometti

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KLibido is a graphical Usenet file grabber for KDE. KLibido supports multiple server, multiple download threads per server, .nzb files, queue management, etc...

Here are some key features of "KLibido":
Automatic joining of multi-part posts
Automatic decoding of posts, using the uudeview library (yEnc supported) or an internal decoder
Multiple servers support, with priorities and fallback if an article fails on a server and is present on another server
Queue balancing: KLibido spreads the bytes load across servers with the same priority
Multiple download threads per server support, with the ability to add or remove threads "on the fly"
Gracefully handles network errors, timeouts, disconnects and out-of-space errors
Acceptable (at least, by me :) memory usage (80-100 MB VMRss with several large groups open)
Filter articles by subject and state (read, unread, complete, incomplete)
Multi tabbed interface in IDEAl mode, to open multiple newsgroups at once
KParts interface for previewing posts (.nfo, images, etc...) inside the program
.nzb support
Download queue management:
Pause (and resume) the queue
Pause (and resume) the single posts
Drag and drop the items around to change the download order
Cancel download
Lists of finished and failed items
Granularity, with the ability to see the progress/status of the whole post and of the single articles of the post
The progress of the download is saved and survives program exits/crashes

What's New in This Release:
New option: do not automatically resize columns in headerlist (and remember columns' sizes)
New option: Do not automatically sort by subject (and remember the selected sort column)
New option: remember order of columns in headerlists
NEW: Show progress for decoding
FIX: Don't crash while canceling articles during decoding (and really cancel the article)
FIX: Cancel of update items while updating dbs now works
new action: move to bottom of the queue
FIX: correctly remember "maximized" status for main Window.
NEW: Sort by number of articles in available groups list (i.e.: when subscribing to newsgroups)
New shortcuts in headerLists: clear filter (Ctrl + C) and jump to the filter entry box (Ctrl + F)
New option: don't show statusbar at startup
NEW: French translation
NEW: Progress dialog for db migrations
FIX: Header dates now works for localized distributions as well
NEW: During db migration/compact, articles are checked for consistency and discarded (KLibido should not crash anymore if there are bogus articles into dbs). A log of the discarded articles is created in the db dir (default: ~/klibido/db)
Various bugfixes (see Changelog)