Configuration

This section explains how to set up dc-qt so that you can start using the Direct Connect network. You have to set at least some of the options to be able to use dc-qt, so read on.

Start by selecting "Preferences" from the "Actions" menu in the menubar, or by pressing CTRL-P (ctrl followed by the character p). This should make the preferences dialog appear. To the left is a list with two items, common and default. This list shows your configuration profiles. You can add or remove profiles by right clicking in the list. If you want to be able to connect to several hubs using different settings, you just have to create profiles for each different set of settings that you want, and specify what profile you want to use in the connection dialog.

Common settings are settings that cannot be individualy configured for differnet profiles. Default is the default profile, it cannot be removed.

Common settings

Click on common. To the right are three tabs; downloading, interface and stats reporting.

Downloading

Here you can configure download related settings. You must set a download directory, otherwise strange things will happen. Leaving the max download speed at 0 means that the download speed is unlimited.

Interface

This tab contains settings related to the appearance of dc-qt. The first drop-down box lets you select a character encoding scheme. Latin1 or ISO8859-1 should work if you are living in some of the western countries. If you're having problems with some characters being rendered as a square, you may want to try CP1252. It is a Latin1-charset with MS extensions that other people who uses windoz clients might use. In other cases, you're on your own. Note that when changing charset, only new text is affected, old text that has already been received is not retranslated.

The next box lets you select a font that will be used throughout the application. If you are using CP1252, make sure that you select a font that supports it (most TrueType fonts will).

Next is the icon set. Chose one that you like.

IRC-style user list placement means that the user tab will be moved to the right of the chat tabs, like in dc++ for example. The other options should be self-explanatory.

Profile-dependent settings

Click on the default profile. The tabs to the right should change into four new ones.

Connection

This is where you enter information used by DCTC to manage connections and transfers.

Network

Here you enter some network stuff.

User

This is where you enter information about yourself. It will be visible to the other users. You are not required to enter a description and email address on all hubs, but a name is required.

Directories

In this tab, you specify which directories that you would like to share. Click the "add" button to add a directory. You may add as many as you like. Click on a directory in the list and then on "remove" if you want to remove it. You may add or remove directories while connected to a hub, but you need to do a "reshare" from the actions menu in the main window before the changes will be visible to other users.

When you are done filling out these options, click "Close" to close the dialog and save your settings. The configuration is saved in ~/.dc_qt/dc_qt.conf (where ~ is your home directory).

You are now ready to connect to a hub.


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