Deluge for torrent downloads

image by Clair Ching, 2008

Already tried using Deluge last night. I was curious as to how it was because there were people like Benjamin and Karin who said she was liking Deluge. I’ve only used the one in the Ubuntu repositories not the latest one so I am not quite sure how different it is.

In any case, I think that Deluge is more appropriate for users who are looking for a counterpart of uTorrent. The layout looks closer to the look and feel of uTorrent, for one thing.

The screenshot above is the default screen when you view your list of torrents. You’d see the state of completion on the bar below the list of torrents.

Here are a couple of more screenshots:

image by Clair Ching, 2008.

image by Clair Ching, 2008.

Managing your torrents is easy enough with this and this is going to be more familiar looking compared to Transmission. With Transmission there are different views of the torrents you are managing so you might feel weird about it or confused.

Because there is a new release of Deluge, here’s a list of what to expect, as lifted from the application’s website:

What’s new:

* Core/ui split allowing Deluge to run headless as a daemon
* A redesigned GTK interface
* Migration to the upcoming libtorrent 0.14 release
* Stability improvements across the board
* New codebase which will allow for growth and less bugs
* A much improved queuing system
* New bugs for you to find
* And so much more.. Try it and see for yourself!

Caveats:

* Your preferences will not be migrated, but your torrent list should be.
* Not all plugins have been ported yet and some have been integrated into the client.
If you need support for RSS or Scheduler, then please stick with the 0.5.x branch until these plugins can be properly ported to 1.x
* Deluge will start in ‘Classic Mode’ where daemon functionality will be hidden in the gtkui. You can disable this in the Preferences->Interface page, but it does require a restart of Deluge.