Heya,
Does anyone have any objections to me replacing the "official" bittorrent client (~2 megs) with Transmission (~500k)?
Transmission is better integrated in the desktop, smaller in size, and better maintained.
Cheers
Bastien Nocera wrote:
Does anyone have any objections to me replacing the "official" bittorrent client (~2 megs) with Transmission (~500k)?
Transmission is better integrated in the desktop, smaller in size, and better maintained.
+1 Since I found Transmission, it is my BT client of choice.
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 12:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
Heya,
Does anyone have any objections to me replacing the "official" bittorrent client (~2 megs) with Transmission (~500k)?
Transmission is better integrated in the desktop, smaller in size, and better maintained.
Sounds fine to me.
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 12:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
Heya,
Does anyone have any objections to me replacing the "official" bittorrent client (~2 megs) with Transmission (~500k)?
Transmission is better integrated in the desktop, smaller in size, and better maintained.
No complaints, and people cheering on IRC, so done for Fedora 8.
tir, 18 09 2007 kl. 12:56 +0100, skrev Bastien Nocera:
Heya,
Does anyone have any objections to me replacing the "official" bittorrent client (~2 megs) with Transmission (~500k)?
Transmission is better integrated in the desktop, smaller in size, and better maintained.
I'm personally more fond of deluge, it has features Transmission does not have (last I checked) like seeding only to a set ratio, it has a nice plugin system to extend the client and much more without making the interface azureus-like in complexity.
It's very nice, have a look at it.
- David
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:52 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
tir, 18 09 2007 kl. 12:56 +0100, skrev Bastien Nocera:
Heya,
Does anyone have any objections to me replacing the "official" bittorrent client (~2 megs) with Transmission (~500k)?
Transmission is better integrated in the desktop, smaller in size, and better maintained.
I'm personally more fond of deluge, it has features Transmission does not have (last I checked) like seeding only to a set ratio, it has a
Right-click on a torrent, torrent info, see the options tab.
nice plugin system to extend the client and much more without making the interface azureus-like in complexity.
I found deluge heavier (it's written in Python) and the UI more contrived. Transmission's written in C, and has that GNOME/MacOS X (it's a very popular client on MacOS X) philosophy about keeping things simple, yet powerful.
I don't doubt Deluge is nice, but it's far too complicated as a default client, IMO.
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:04 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
I found deluge heavier (it's written in Python) and the UI more contrived. Transmission's written in C, and has that GNOME/MacOS X (it's a very popular client on MacOS X) philosophy about keeping things simple, yet powerful.
I don't doubt Deluge is nice, but it's far too complicated as a default client, IMO.
As the Deluge maintainer in Fedora I'm going to agree rather wholeheartedly with Bastien on this one. It (Deluge) is a really nice client, but for a "Just click and watch it go" client, it is also a lot more complex, in terms of UI. Transmission just feels a lot more first-time-user-friendly in how its UI is structured and its preferences dialog seems a lot more sane.
Perhaps it's a misplaced analogy, but I see it similar to Firefox in a lot of ways - Deluge, like Firefox, as a lot of really great features and works well; but an alternative such as Transmission (a la Epiphany to Firefox) has perhaps less features but a much more user-focused UI.
Deluge is a very good client, yes; but at the same time I feel that it still needs some TLC before we can consider it for a default setup.
My $0.02...
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 09:47 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:04 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
I found deluge heavier (it's written in Python) and the UI more contrived. Transmission's written in C, and has that GNOME/MacOS X (it's a very popular client on MacOS X) philosophy about keeping things simple, yet powerful.
I don't doubt Deluge is nice, but it's far too complicated as a default client, IMO.
As the Deluge maintainer in Fedora I'm going to agree rather wholeheartedly with Bastien on this one. It (Deluge) is a really nice client, but for a "Just click and watch it go" client, it is also a lot more complex, in terms of UI. Transmission just feels a lot more first-time-user-friendly in how its UI is structured and its preferences dialog seems a lot more sane.
Great to see reasonable people involved in the project :)
Thanks Peter
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