Hi all.

My title
I am finally moving away from uTorrent 2.21.  qbittorrent is OK, but not portable and the author is not receptive to legions of user requests (for portability).

I found Tixati and like it so far.  However, please forgive me for saying this, but I am not fond of the interface.

(1) Firstly, I don't the way the download/upload speeds are displayed:.

I think the way uTorrent 2.2.1 does it is absolutely perfect. It auto-adjusts the speeds based on the what kind of speeds it's downloading at. For example, if you're downloading at bytes/sec vs kB/sec vs MB/sec.  See pic: https://i.imgur.com/0cv6rb1.png

(2) There is no way that I can find a way to show *SMALL* icon only (only large) -- the way uTorrent does it.  I don't need bandwidth view or help or home button.  What I want is the way uTorrent hands it which I find works best with my workflow. It utilizes specific functions (delete/pause/stop/resume/settings) that I use on a day to day basis.  Why can't Tixati do this? (Or can I already?)
See pic: http://i.imgur.com/vDFpK1H.png

(3) There are small nit-picky interface things I don't like. for example: (see pic) http://i.imgur.com/Vly5uzp.png
Why does the column say bytes? It should say "Size"!  Another example is when adding a torrent: http://i.imgur.com/TmE0Oth.png
Shouldn't it say OK or Cancel?    Another is the main screen: http://i.imgur.com/2kt1PBV.png     Shouldn't it say Down speed  and Up Speed instead of bytes?

(4) Why can't I select a torrent and hit DELETE to delete the torrent? Am I missing something?

(5) Is there any way to get rid of the splash screen? I currently use -starthiddenintray command line to bypass it, but this is an inelegant solution. I know it's shown very briefly, but I hate splash screens. :(

(6) Give us options to check for Tixati updates: a) daily b) weekly c) monthly   http://i.imgur.com/8Y5HEtq.png
I know this is a bandwidth issue.

(7) If Tixati claims it's portable, why does it create the following folder: C:\Users\UserNameHere\AppData\Roaming\tixati
I don't see any settings contained, but portability is a sacred things for us portable-purists.  When I read portable, I understand it as ALL settings... everything is contained within its own /Tixati/ folder.

(8) When a new version is found, why can't  Tixati update itself *portably*.  Download zipped copy, unzip, quit and run script that will replace contents of EXE file and then re-run.  Other apps do this.

(9) I was able to crash Tixati with a Tixati_crash log.  I believe I was browsing the widgets options sections when it crashed. Please let me know who to send this file to in order to help.

(10) I set my download slots to 1000. Why isn't there an unlimited option?

(11) I cannot find a way to see a column for peers/seeders in the main transfers tab/column view.  I modified/added all of the columns available here: http://i.imgur.com/TApRudk.png     While I am at it, I cannot find an "availability" column like the one uTorrent v2.2.1 has.

(12) Help manual is grossly outdated. For example: see the section for File Allocation.  Help says one option is (Default) while the program actually has a different (default) option. :(
Again, fantastic effort by the developers.  I love the near-100% portable support. I am forever grateful for the work and am hopeful the aforementioned issues above can be solved.

I hope Tixati does not change anything just to be "more like utorrent".  In fact, most of these things are the product of many many user suggestions, like how speeds and sizes are displayed (and these things can be customized).

Things in Tixati are MUCH more thought-out, and CORRECT.  Why would you want a column to say "Size" on top, and then every row has to indicate it is some unit of bytes, eg. 100 KBytes?  This is redundant and wastes screen space.  It is much smarter to have common units at the column header, eg. Bytes, and then the different unit sizes on each line, 100 K, 245 M, etc.  You can make the column narrower that way.  It's also much easier to just the magnitude of a number if you keep the units fixed at K, so at a glance you can see the difference between 120,000 K and 120 K, vs 120 M and 120 K.  This is all customizable regardless.

Other little nit-picks like "why can't I hit the delete key and remove a torrent".... well don't you think the developers considered this?  Maybe they have their reasons, like they don't think it's worth the accidental deletions that will inevitably happen are worth saving a two clicks once in a while?

In fact, I think utorrent has a very messy and sloppy interface that has very little consistency.  It certainly is ugly.  And judging by the droves of people switching over and praising Tixati's clean-cut interface, I think these guys know what they're doing.


Sorry, but this is just dumb.  There's no "bandwidth issue" here, checking for an update takes under 1K and doesn't take any resources.  Adding a selector for the frequency is just needless complexity and a waste of developer time.


This is dumb squared.  And then "other apps do this" is even worse.  People do not like automatic upgrades, and you should NEVER trust any app to self-update.  See https://forum.tixati.com/support/1476/  on this forum.  Very few apps do automatic updates securely.  If the encryption/signing is not done perfectly, and it rarely is, then someone WILL do a MITM job and pipeline executable code onto your computer.  It happens all the time.  Here's one of many recent examples: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/huge-number-of-mac-apps-vulnerable-to-hijacking-and-a-fix-is-elusive/


This has already been discussed in the forum, please use the search function.  This folder is needed to have a consistent app-lock between portable and non-portable instances and prevent multiple instances from launching.  Even though you don't understand why, I assure you there are reasons, and that folder is deleting once the portable version quits.  Please spare us the portable-app pedantry.


Anyone can update the help file, please feel free.  I would rather the devs spend time innovating and not get bogged down updating information on settings that are practically self-explanatory.

Please, original poster, just learn and use the software for a few weeks before you start throwing around suggestions to make this into some ugly-ass utorrent clone just because that's what you're used to.  That's not what Tixati is all about.

Hello and thanks for the input.  We consider all user suggestions.

Closing thread before things turn into an unproductive client debate.