Replacing the bittorrent client

[Bastien Nocera]

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