bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Warren Togami]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 12/15/05, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Not sure but I think the one in core should be the simplest.  Click on
>> a .torrent file and a nice little progress bar pops up to tell you the
>> status and perhaps sits in the notification area.
> 
> I think notification area item is going to be pretty important.  Isn't
> the whole point of a bittorrent client to act as a peer even when the
> download is completed? If all people are doing is leeching and then
> turning off their own torrent nodes that sort of defeats the purpose
> of the peering concept.  I think you'll definitely want to continue to
> inform the desktop user that the bittorrent node is still active and
> is uploading to other peers aftger the download is complete. I don't
> think you want that going on in the background without some visual que
> to remind people.
> 
> -jef
> 

The biggest problem with this entire idea is that it wont work for users 
by default, because our default security configuration will block 
incoming connections, and more users these days are behind NAT.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com