avalanche0.1

Avalanche 0.1: A BitTorrent Downloader for Gnome

In an almost unheard of flurry of activity I've posted another piece of Python I've spent some time on; Avalanche , A BitTorrent Downloader for Gnome.

Many people complain about the cryptic names of software and in particular Open Source software is a pretty bad offender, however, when all the obvious names are taken what else are we to do? What I did was search in a thesaurus which produced a word which can be associated with "torrent" but still has seemingly little correlation to the function of the program.

The thing I've tried to get with this application is absolute compliance with the Gnome HIG along with some (hopefully) well placed information to produce a nice intuitive interface which provides everything you should need to monitor a download. Sounds a little like idealistic bullshit, but there you go. I think the interface has come out fairly well. I have been trying to outdo the already good gnome-bt and a there's a couple of areas I think mine does better in.

Everything you should would want in a glance (based on a use case involving only me, admittidly) is provided in the main window. Everything else is provided in a second informational window. The advantage of this is that all the information can be seen at once and only pertinent information is displayed by default. This is the biggest thing that irks me about tabs, and why I think Apple's Finder Info window is vastly superior to Nautilus's Tabbed Info window.

I'm throwing this out into the world off the back of the open source cornerstone release early, release often and hence this release has been dubbed "release early, release often". Theoretically this allows users to try it out and get hooked while I continue with development, although I'm not expecting much. While this release is "early", I'm not going to have much time in the immediate future to follow through and release often, so don't expect much for the moment.