European Wafaa

With the upcoming openSUSE 11.0 there was due to be a slight gap in GNOME on the , no bittorrent client included in the install. A slight issue that jpr wanted to resolve, so he threw a request out to the community looking for suggestions as to which GNOME client to include. Several suggestions came back on the mailing list, but nothing really definitive. So insteps yours truly offering to take all those suggested and do a simple review (I use that word very loosely ). The reviewed applications were all written in a form of Gtk, either Gtk+ or Gtk#. You can read my findings here.

One of the suggestions was for a new app called Monsoon written by Alan McGovern, and I like it (that may have shown up in my little piece). This fine thing is written in Gtk# and is starting to pick up momentum, and before anyone mentions it - No, GNOME is not being taken over by Mono!!

You can get monsoon from the GNOME:Community repo or by the usual

If you have any views on which bittorrent client should be included, you have until this weekend to make your voice heard, either by IRC but preferably by mail on the opensuse-gnome mailing list.