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