Proposing Transmission BitTorrent client as default

[Flávio Martins]

There was a recent thread, on this list or moved to this list, with subject:
"Gnome-Bt should be removed from applications menu"

The fact that this thread was started, gives a hint that gnome-bt doesn't
provide much value or doesn't work how users expect. Therefore they would
prefer it removed from the menus where the other applications are.

I had a chat with Sebastien, before that thread was even started, about
introducing this torrent client as replacement for gnome-bt. I was waiting
for the 1.00 release to propose the change on this list and when it happened
that's what I did. I'm confident that a thread titled "Transmission should
be removed from applications menu" wouldn't show up if the change took
place.

Take in mind that the .desktop file was previously removed from the gnome-bt
package.
While gnome-bt was installed by default, I think that few users noticed the
existence of such application. Users who wanted to download a torrent
probably installed another client not knowing of the existence of gnome-bt.

Flávio Martins

On Jan 10, 2008 4:14 PM, Andrea Veri <bluekuja at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> Flávio Martins ha scritto:
> |  "Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent
> client
> | with a focus on being lightweight yet feature-filled."
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> | I propose we replace, in the default installation, the packages
> | gnome-btdownload with transmission-gtk.
>
> Did you check some popcon statistics between the use of Gnome-bt and
> transmission in both Debian [1] and Ubuntu [2]? Plus, as Sebastien
> pointed out, what's wrong with the current gnome-btdownload package?
>
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> [1] Transmission: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=transmission and
> ~      Gnome-bt: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gnome-btdownload
> [2]  http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst (search the packages by hand)
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