bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 12/16/2005 11:27 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> Fedora focuses on Gnome.
> For UI consistency - a gnome client is best imho.
> A non gnome gtk client is acceptable.

Funny that Azureus uses SWT toolkit, which in turn uses GTK :-)


> Java - I'm not a big fan. I've never tried Azureus - but the only
> operating system I've ever used where gui java apps look even halfway
> acceptable is OS X.

See Eclipse (SWT as well).

Granted, I'm not a big fan of many Java GUI apps -- people go too wild 
with "app has to look their way", which ends up in too many apps looking 
different :( (And I'm a Java developer myself.)

Regards,
Dariusz


		
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