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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Integrating BitTorrent
From:       "Petter E. Stokke" <gibreel () project23 ! no>
Date:       2003-05-28 14:08:41
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On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 07:07, David Findlay wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 May 2003 02:43 pm, Pupeno proclaimed:
> > I didn't test it yet nor I didn't searched for an alternative. But I had
> > this idea long time ago and it's nice to see someone who had it too, but
> > also implemented it and maybe someone was intresting in it, or better,
> > intresting in some kind of KDE integration.
> > http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
> > (The idea in short is a general porpouse peer to peer downloader for
> > bandwith saving).
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. Integrating it into the kde download manager would be 
> the best idea really, although it may have to be a KIOslave for that. 

Actually, the ideal BitTorrent application for KDE would have to be its
own download manager; it just wouldn't integrate very well with
multiprotocol download managers, and it would need a lot of specialised
controls in order to sensibly handle multiple concurrent torrent
downloads at optimal speeds. I think a standalone BitTorrent application
that is simply fed torrent files through the standard mime type
mechanism would make the most sense. A KIOslave, particularly, doesn't
make much sense at all, as you don't usually deal with BitTorrent files
in the kind of protocol-centric way a KIOslave is meant to interface.

I've also been thinking for a while about writing a Qt/KDE based
BitTorrent backend for implementing an application like this. I don't
really feel comfortable with the idea of trying to interface with Python
code in an application as complex as this would have to be.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'd really like to write something like
this, and wonder about what sorts of ideas people have about what the
ideal BitTorrent application would be like.

-- 
Petter E. Stokke <gibreel@project23.no> http://www.gibreel.net/
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