Transmission as default bittorrent client

[Vadim Peretokin]

Deluge is more popular, checking with the sample given from
popcon.ubuntu.com.

If I remember right, Transmission was chosen over Deluge because the devs
thought both had similar features, but Deluge had an option to
password-protect the tray in some tab under preferences, which someone
didn't like. So..

(I tested Transmission myself later; the client promptly froze for me. At
first Compiz was blamed, but after I repeated the same with Metacity, the
thread got really quiet)

On Feb 5, 2008 7:37 PM, Remco <remco47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I'm new here,
>
> I would like to comment on the decision to make Transmission the
> default bittorrent client in Hardy. Why was this program chosen? It
> seems to me (though, as a fan, I'm biased) that Deluge is more popular
> and more familiar (looks like µTorrent & Azureus). Transmission has a
> bit of a clunky interface by opening another window for
> torrent-details. This didn't work for GIMP, and it doesn't work for
> Transmission either.
>
> Deluge supports some features many users need like DHT and blocklists.
> Plus, it has this plugin-system going for them, kind of like Firefox.
> Add to that the fact that you can run it on Windows, so you can also
> include it in the Windows autostart-menu of the cd.
>
> What are your thoughts? I hope I didn't jump into this mailing-list
> too loudly... :)
>
> Cheers,
> Remco
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