btpropertypage

BitTorrent Property Page for Nautilus

Hello, does anyone still read this? I'm a really terrible "blogger", but hey.

While I should be busy doing my third year project and revising for my exams coming up in January I've been playing around with GTK programming, BitTorrent and Python. I've made a little script to show the information contained in BitTorrent 'metainfo' files as a Property Page tab in Nautilus. You can grab it over at idontsmoke.

This was actually only a side track, I've been playing around with the idea of making a client, which sort of works, isn't finished and may never be. I'm slowly getting the hang of GTK, that's the part I spent the most time wrestling with to get this Property Page working. After having used Cocoa and Apple's Interface Builder it is very frustrating at times fighting with spacing and damn GtkBoxes using Glade and progmatically. Interface Builder makes it very easy to make HIG complient applications, whereas with Glade I'm still not sure of the best way and I just seem to pad everything in Gtk.Alignments.

The other thing I dislike about Gnome's HIG is it seems to recommend everything is so spaced out, and every interface ends up looking big and clunky.

Anyway, check out the Property Page and let me know what you think.