darren posted on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:34:09 -0800 as excerpted: > [Duncan wrote...]
>> Anyway, I do like the eye candy in ktorrent, and klibido too but it was >> limited in other ways, and having found out that transmission is gtk, I >> was just wondering how it compared, and how similar it was in spirit to >> pan, as well, given Charles' activity in both pan and transmission. > From what I understand Transmission was a Bittorrent client that was > primarily for the MAC. It had a back-end that was OS independent but > the MAC GUI was MUCH more polished than the existing GTK gui. Last year > they posted a request for a GTK developer to improve the existing GTK > client and Charles responded. It has since improved dramatically. > Like you I don't use Bittorrent too much but Transmission reached the > point where Ubuntu decided to use it as the default client in the next > release so it must at least be user-friendly. > > As for how it looks I think it looks ALOT like Pan (Which is a plus for > me ;-) ). Here are some screenshots: > http://www.transmissionbt.com/screenshots.php > > There are a number of "Neat" things in Transmission that I would like to > see in Pan such as encryption and bandwidth throttling so my hope is > that now that Transmission has reached 1.0 maybe Charles will return and > add those features to Pan. Of course that is completely up to Charles > but I can hope ;-). A year and a half belated (I'm going thru old posts I had kept marked as unread, to check later), but thanks for the info. I had no idea it had that many front-ends, and seeing the qt one, I'll keep it in mind in case kde4's ktorrent doesn't work well the next time I need to use it. Of course, I don't know if that's qt3 or qt4, but I've just spent the last couple months switching to kde4 and getting everything reconfigured the way I want, and now no longer have kde3 or indeed qt3 on the system. FWIW, I discovered the qt4 based smplayer in the process, as a substitute for kaffeine, which doesn't have a kde4 version out yet. I'm "pleased as punch" with it, and don't think I care about kaffeine any longer, as smplayer's even more powerful than kaffeine for kde3 was. =:^) The point, besides passing on an smplayer recommendation =:^), is that a lot of kde4 apps aren't up to their kde3 counterparts yet, and I'm looking elsewhere, particularly at qt4 apps since I need it anyway, for kde4. Thus, the transmission qt interface was interesting, and I may well end up using transmission with either the terminal/ncurses interface or the qt4 interface (assuming it's qt4) if I find ktorrent for kde4 isn't what the kde3 version was. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
