Allow qBittorrent to run headless
Some people think that it would be nice if qBittorrent could run headless (without GUI) as a daemon.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Christophe Dumez
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Christophe Dumez
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Christophe Dumez
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
2.1.0
- Started by
- Christophe Dumez
- Completed by
- Christophe Dumez
Related branches
Sprints
Whiteboard
In v2.0, Bittorrent code is fully separated from UI code, Program Preferences no longer required the UI and the Web UI became quite complete. As a consequence, I believe that Headless running would now be a great feature.
A --disable-gui parameter should be added to configure file in order to disable all UI-related code compilation. A loader class should be written to replace the GUI class. This loader class would:
- Enable Web UI
- Instanciate Bittorrent Object
- Listen on Unix Socket for parameters from other instances
- Load torrents
For headless running to be useful, the Web UI preferences should be a lot more complete:
- Change Web UI username/password (default being 'admin:
- UPnp / NAT-PMP [ON/OFF]
- Queuing system
- Encryption, DHT, ...
- Basically, all program preferences that are not UI related.
