Hi, I'm the developer of MonoTorrent[1][2], it was developed in the summer of 2006 (iirc) as part of googles Summer of Code initiative. A GUI[3] was developed for the library during the Summer of Code of 2007, now known as Monsoon. That GUI is fairly well featured and robust. Check out the video in [3] if you want a really quick overview of all the features. My pitch is that Monsoon should be the default client for suse. It's feature rich, under active development and easy to use. I also did a very brief comparison between Monsoon and Transmission a short time ago, the results of which i detailed in my blog[4][5]. Since then the only major change in MonoTorrent has been that hashing performance has increased by about 8-10%. I've attached the links to the 1-click install for Suse 10.2 [6] and Suse 10.3 [7] along with a link to the project on the opensuse build service [8]. Note, there are a few known issues in that release which have subsequently been fixed in SVN, mostly involving the persisting of certain data between sessions. Let me know what you think, Thanks, Alan. [1]: http://monotorrent.com/ [2]: http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/ [3]: http://buchan.esoteriq.org/weblog/2007/08/20/monotorrent-gtk-interface-summe... [4]: http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-thought-struck-me.html [5]: http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-is-just-quick-follow-up-from-my... [6]: http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/home%3Aalan_mcgovern/openSUSE_10.2/monotorr... [7]: http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/home%3Aalan_mcgovern/openSUSE_10.3/monotorr... [8]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:alan_mcgovern On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@novell.com> wrote:
Le mardi 25 mars 2008, à 16:22 -0400, JP Rosevear a écrit :
Hi all, I was wondering if there was a volunteer out there to assess the various gtk/gnome torrent apps for use in 11.0. Specifically:
1) Bittorrent-gtk
2) gnome-btdownload
3) Transmission
and come up with a recommendation.
Would be nice to have a volunteer work on studying this, indeed.
Here's a very quick and dirty study (including deluge):
+ Bittorrent-gtk: never tried this. I assume that's the default UI for bittorrent? I couldn't easily find screenshots, so I gave up.
+ gnome-btdownload: a bit too minimalistic, and the development could be a bit more active.
+ transmission: good UI, with philosophy close to GNOME's one. Seems to work.
+ deluge: didn't know this. I just looked at the screenshots, and it looks okay, but the UI would need more love.
So my personal order would be: transmission, deluge, gnome-btdownload and Bittorrent-gtk.
Now, I'm sure that someone else can do better that this "study" (I'm nearly ashamed to name this a study...). Any volunteer?
Vincent
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