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[Pan-users] Re: What's the status of new development?
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Duncan |
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[Pan-users] Re: What's the status of new development? |
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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:23:26 +0000 (UTC) |
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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.
--
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