On 12/15/05, Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
At some point in time we in the desktop group discussed shipping
bittorrent and a nice frontend in fedora core. Since more and more
people start to use this as a standard way of distributing software
(e.g. fedora core itself uses this) it really should be supported in a
default desktop install, so that when you click on a torrent file in the
browser something "nice" happens.
What are peoples opinions on this?
Another question is what frontend to use as a default. bittorrent itself
ships with a wxPython based frontend (bittorrent-gui, availible with
bittorrent in fedora extras). Another frontend is gnome-bt
(
http://gnome-bt.sourceforge.net/) which is designed more like a simple
*.torrent mime handler rather than a full bittorrent app. Ubuntu
defaults to this i think.
I packaged gnome-bt at:
http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.noarch.rpm
http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.src.rpm
I don't use bittorrent all that much. What do people think about these
two frontends? Are there other interesting ones?
If you are going to package a client with the OS make it bittorrent-gui
- I actually used this for a while because azureus is kind of a
resource hog sometimes. Azureus is working a bit better now since the
latest update so I switched back. For simplicity bittorrent-gui works
fine and it also manages the upload ratio quite well actually. If you
feel the need to do so you can actually tell bittorrent-gui to keep
seeding any of the files indefinately if you are trying to get your
share ratio up. At one point I had 5 items set to seed indefinately
while I was downloading a few others. It is nowhere near as powerful
as azureus but it is a decent simple program. Since the 4.2 update
bittorrent-gui became even more customizable, although people have to
realize they need to right-click on the torrent to access some of the
extra features like seed indefinately.
Sincerely,
--
Gerald Thompson
geraldlt(a)gmail.com
www.gltechsolutions.com