On 12/15/05, Michael Favia <michael.favia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > While i agree with j5 statemnt on simplicity i disagree that closing the > torrent "defeats" the purpose. Even if individuals close the torrent > after download they still supported the torrent throughout their > download. I have no problem letting users choose to stop their local bittorrent node whenever they wish. What I have a problem with is a default application that shutdowns the node activity at the end of downloads by default for everyone... pretending to be something like an http or ftp download client. The peer activity of the bittorrent process is important and i think it needs to be clear in the UI that uploads are happening and can continue to happen as long as the local bittorrent client stays alive. I think its a bastardization of the bittorrent concept to have the default client in Core that people will reach for be so simple as to shutdown upload activity at the end of download activity without making an effort to educate the user that bittorent is a peer process and gives the user the choice to turn off the upload activity or leave it running. A notification area icon which uses the libnotify bubbly crap seems most appropriate to me. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
