Bitcoin - Qt should prompt for fee when sending BTC

[Braincoin]

I just used Bitcoin-Qt client on OS X to send bitcoins for the first time. It did not prompt me to add a fee. I looked into it and found out that the preferences are set to not send a fee. The client should always prompt or have a place to enter a fee, but it is hidden away in preferences. I wanted to include a fee, but it sent before I was given a chance. Now my BTC transaction is in limbo. Why does the client not prompt for a fee?

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[deepceleron]

You currently are only prompted that a fee will be included if one will be required by the Bitcoin network. If there was no prompt, then your transaction was high priority (made of a sufficient amount of Bitcoins that have been in your wallet for a while), and I would expect that it will be included in one of the next blocks.

There is an open issue to include a prompt, to encourage more voluntary fee and also to confirm that the option hasn't been mistakenly set. I've already made a thread of what that could look like:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=143881.msg1525734#msg1525734

[Braincoin]

Thank you for your response! I have updated my settings to include a fee from now on.