Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Tom von Schwerdtner <tvon etria com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:12 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
>
> > Download manager is useful for more complicated scenarios and "power
> > user" ones. That is, when you're downloading things like set of .iso
> > files.
>
> How about supporting BitTorrent downloads transparently? The currently 
> popular graphical bt frontends are decidedly non-GNOMEish.

gnome-btdownload is fairly gnomeish

> There's a bug open about BitTorrent support in the Epiphany download 
> manager, but it's unlikely that that will ever be added, as BitTorrent 
> requires the download window to stay open after the download has 
> completed (since it will function as a seed from that point on).

True, though BitTorrent isn't really a download process, it is a sharing process (and only really works when the people using it understand this).

-Tom

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