[gpodder-devel] Does gpodder still want gnome-bt?

  • From: me at nikosapi.org (Nick Nobody)
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:19:36 -0500

On November 12, 2008 17:29:13 Thomas Perl wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > So apparently gnome-bt is winding down upstream from my reading of the
> > website.
> >
> > http://gnome-bt.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Is gpodder going to transition to using transmission perhaps by
> > default? is transmission the default client for GNOME now?
> >
> > transmission comes with a cli client.... and a deamon..and a remote
> > control for the daemon. Lots of ways to interact.
>
> How much are Torrent-based podcasts used nowadays? I personally would
> also be happy to just discard the gnome-btdownload support and just
> download/open .torrent files with the standard application - i.e. do no
> special handling in gPodder itself, but support "opening" such files,
> which in turn means that your default BitTorrent client will get to open
> and use the file.
>
> Is this a solution that is working for people? If so, I'd be happy to
> strip out gnome-btdownload support in one of the future versions of
> gPodder. Anybody has any use for the gnome-btdownload integration? If
> so, please tell us!
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention :)
>
> Thomas
>

Sounds good to me, that really only used to work on Ubuntu anyways (iirc) so 
it would be better for everyone.

I still use the feature to save the torrent files to a directory so don't get 
rid of that. It works great with rTorrent :)

nick


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