the folks around the blender community released an "open movie" under a creative commons license called elephant's dream. it's already about 20% here thanks to bittorrent.
and while it was coming down i noticed something in the peer list that is becoming more and more common:
ktorrent! ktorrent 1.3 (still in svn) has really won me over. it's a lot faster and more reliable than 1.2 and now seems to support things like dht (though i've never used that myself =). the real killer feature for me, though, is the integration which is probably hardly surprising for a kde app. it starts out with a simple enough interface, but you can turn on more advanced UI bits that are loaded as plugins; the integrated search page really does it for me; firewall autoconfiguration; systray support ... or just use it for when you click on .torrent files on webpages and let it ride in simplicity.
back to the peer listing ... these days it's not unusual to see ktorrent as a peer during a bittorrent download. while i use bittorrent primarily for swapping open content (linux distros, free videos, etc) which naturally biases my experience to the techie and open source crowd, i do occasionally step into the mainstream world and i've seen ktorrent often enough there too. it's probably safe to assume that not every kde-using bittorrent downloader uses ktorrent (yet ;) so the ktorrent users represent only a fraction of the kde users on bittorrent. assuming that bittorrent is still an 'advanced users and enthusiasts' sort of thing (which i assume it is?) and that summed up the peers listings i get tend to be a representative selection sample, it seems we're doing pretty darn well in that particular segment of the computer using population. nice.
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What widget theme are you using in the screenshot? It looks really good, a little flashier than Plastik and very similar to the Ubuntulooks Theme. Any hope of having something similar by default in KDE4?
That's polyester.
I would guess Polyester.
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27968
I've been using KTorrent for quite some time. I must say that I prefer it above the well known Azureus or any other torrent client.
Just like most KDE apps it's just easy and pleasant to work with. It feels small (CPU and MEM-wise) and there are very little unnecesairy items in the main window. I love it.
is KTorrent really that good? ive been using BitTorrent for quite some time now and i find it very good!
I've been using ktorrent since it appeared in Kubuntu repositories. But it crashed on me too often. Sometimes it stalled on 99% and after client restart it downloaded the last few chunks. Another annoyance was lack of support for torrents with 100+ files (gave error "too many open files").
Then I started to use svn versions of ktorrent and it works just like a charm. Every now and then I make svn update and see if something major has changed and make a new build.
Once I used a java based client, but it had too large memory consumption and it was somewhat slow to my taste.
When ktorrent had that 100+ file handling problem, I used patched ctorrent and screen combination. IMHO it has the smallest footprint on resources. That seed I hope to see KT on QT4/KDE4 combo sometime soon ;)
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