On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:27 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 16:42 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Then why don't you tell us what one can use from the cmdline as easily as > > bittorrent-curses? > > > > I agree with seth: mindlessness. How am I going to explain to a friend of > > mine who wants to download Fedora then? "Take the torrent from the site, but > > then only download the file with dvd in the name". > > Mindless and commandline don't often go hand in hand (: > > The way it works for me is I click on a torrent file that's offered via > a webpage, like get.fedoraproject.org . This opens up Transmission, > which shows me a window with all the files in the torrent, boxes > pre-checked by them. I uncheck what I don't want to download and hit > "add". Transmission starts downloading the content and life is good. > > We can reduce the number of links offered to users on download pages, > simplify the instructions, and have a better end user experience. > > I'd imagine other desktops have similar workflows when dealing with > torrent files, I'd think resorting to the command line to deal with them > would be a last resort for the people who need help getting Fedora > downloaded. someone asks me how to do it I can paste the command in that does the whole thing. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
