Proposing Transmission BitTorrent client as default

[thibaut.bethune at voila.fr]

As far as i'm concerned i'm very fond of transmission since it is a sngle windows piece of software (instead of having lost of windows)

besides it is very fast and has a clean and simple UI as mentionned by Flávio Martins


> Message du 08/01/08 à 21h24
> De : "Flávio Martins" <xhaker at gmail.com>
> A : ubuntu-desktop at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Objet : Proposing Transmission BitTorrent client as default
> 
>  "Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client
> with a focus on being lightweight yet feature-filled."
> 
> I propose we replace, in the default installation, the packages
> gnome-btdownload with transmission-gtk.
> 
> I think Transmission is very user friendly, and currently is the perfect
> choice of BitTorrent client for the Gnome Desktop.
> The Gtk+ client has a well-designed and simple user interface.
> Fedora 8 ships transmission-gtk on their LiveCD and probably on the default
> Gnome Desktop installation too.
> For Mac OSX users Transmission is already the BitTorrent Client of choice.
> Transmission[1] is an actively developed project, you can read more about it
> on the dedicated wikipedia article[2].
> 
> The packages are in the official repositories, so fi you're interested,
> just install the packages with the command: sudo apt-get install
> transmission-gtk
> 
> Users of Hardy Heron will be installing version 1.0 of Transmission,
> released this month.
> Users of Ubuntu 7.10 will be running a earlier version 0.72, most similar to
> what ships in Fedora 8.
> 
> So, I would like to hear back from you guys. Your opinions and concerns.
> 
> 
> For Ubuntu developers:
> Upstream uses Trac[3] for all the development tracking.
> Ubuntu is currently taking Debian's source packages[4] with no changes.
> 
> Regards,
> Flávio Martins
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.transmissionbt.com
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(BitTorrent_client)
> [3] http://trac.transmissionbt.com
> [4] http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/transmission.html
> >
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