Proposing Transmission BitTorrent client as default

[Flávio Martins]

On Jan 10, 2008 8:59 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:


> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Could you explain what are the
> gnome-btdownload issues and what transmission-gtk does better?


 - gnome-btdownload does not work as expected when a user tries to resume
downloads for example, and I can't blame it since Gnome-Bt is not more than
a frontend for bittorrent and btdownload. Maybe upstream would put it
better: "A work-in-progress Gnome "mime-sink" for BitTorrent files. It's not
meant to be an entire front-end, just a program that pops up when you
"execute" the torrent files."
 - transmission-gtk works as expected, when you click it in the menus, a
windows pops up where you can *manage* torrents, previous downloads (and
seeding) are automatically resumed. That said, I would translate the change
to Transmission as a huge improvement, except for the console. Since
gnome-bt pulls the bittorrent package as a dependency a user would get the
console commands.
 - There is however the transmission-cli package which provides a console
client. The transmission package is a meta-package which depends on
transmission-gtk and transmission-cli.
 - Of course transmission is better in many other ways, they support
encryption for instance.
I'm not aiming for most features here, I was thinking simplicity and ease of
use. Deluge-torrent for example has more features but the interface is not
as user-friendly as transmission.

Do you know if anybody is looking at the launchpad bugs for this one?


I don't know if anyone is looking into this. I've been watching upstream on
their trac. Chat with them on their irc channel on freenode. Fiddled with
packaging. I wouldn't mind caring for the bugs, etc.
Please remember Fedora is using transmission as default already, and
upstream is active, and from what I see very interested in the gtk client.

Flávio Martins
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