Ktorrent Status/Replacement

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, November 17, 2014 03:21:57 PM Jörn Schönyan wrote:
> Am Montag, 17. November 2014 14:37:54 CEST schrieb Scott Kitterman:
> > I took a look at the currently packaged alternatives and qbittorrent
> 
> seems
> 
> > like the obvious choice.  It's Qt based and is actively
> > maintained in Debian
> > and upstream.
> > 
> > Anyone have other suggestions?
> 
> You could have a look at Fatrat. I didn't have time to go deep in testing,
> but it is a hybrid of Bittorrent client and download manager and seems
> really fine. In combination with Firefox, it would be wise to ship
> xul-ext-flashgot, synced from Debian, too. That would integrate Fatrat in
> Firefox. I did also propose it to the Lubuntu team for the transition to
> LXQt.

It looks like the last final (non-beta) release was in 2010.  Also, I worry 
about shipping a YouTube downloader since they tend to get out of date/stop 
working on a regular basis.  At least taking a quick look, I think there are 
better maintained alternatives.

Thanks,

Scott K