On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:12:03PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: | Alexander Larsson 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? | | Upstream bittorrent stopped using wxPython at 3.90; the current -gui | package used in bittorrent 4.x is pygtk2-based and I don't see any | advantages that gnome-bt has over it personally. +1 If any bittorrent client is to slip into core, my vote is for the upstream default. | I think the only viable alternative would be azureus really, which is | java-based. Azureus is OK, but is a bit feature-bloated IMO for a pice of software that just needs to manage downloads (I mean, seriously, do people really need an IRC client built into their bittorrent client?). I think that the functionality of the standard upstream gui should satisfy all of our core needs. luke -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
