<br>On Jan 10, 2008 8:59 AM, Sebastien Bacher <<a href="mailto:seb128@ubuntu.com">seb128@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Thanks for the suggestion. Could you explain what are the<br>gnome-btdownload issues and what transmission-gtk does better?</blockquote><div> </div><div> - 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."<br> - 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.
<br> - 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.<br> - Of course transmission is better in many other ways, they support encryption for instance.
<br>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.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Do you know if anybody is looking at the launchpad bugs for this one?</blockquote><div> </div></div>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.
<br>Please remember Fedora is using transmission as default already, and upstream is active, and from what I see very interested in the gtk client.<br><br>Flávio Martins<br>