On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:23 -0500, Jack Tanner wrote: > John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > Not sure but I think the one in core should be the simplest. Click on > > a .torrent file and a nice little progress bar pops up to tell you the > > status and perhaps sits in the notification area. By all means though, > > get Azureus to work and find someone to package it into extras. > > I don't mean to get into "my favorite client is X" debate, but if we're > picking something for core, I'd argue for picking a client that people > really love.[1] I've never used Azureus, but by that reasoning, since > Azureus is regularly on sf.net's most downloaded/highest activity lists, > it's a good choice. The "safe but boring" default client is a bad choice. > > [1] > http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/12/being_brave_is_.html And what happens when app XYZ becomes the flavor of the month? Remember, not having it as the default doesn't mean it is not there. >From the responses on this thread I would really encourage someone to package Azureus up for extras because people do seem to love it. I can imagine torrents becoming just like regular download. Oh how I would hate it if every time I went to download a new tarball a huge management window would pop up. All I would want is something to tell me it is downloading and notify me when it is finished. -- John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
