On 12/15/05, Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx www.gltechsolutions.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
