Deluge Forum

Hi,
I started using Deluge since i changes my Provider and Deluge is the only Client that allows me to Leech with my full Bandwith. Other Clients encryption ist too low i guess. I think Deluge has great Potential , it is afaik the only Client that runs on all possible OS. But there are a few things i dislike. Im going to list them ...

1, It is so big.
--- Why has Deluge ~10MB? (uTorrent only has 250kB) its the biggest Client i know , and i think thats one of the reasons why it is so >slow< . Im using WinXP , maybe its faster on other Plattforms , but isnt it possible to make Deluge run faster? I dont know to to describe that right , but it is just so slow , it needs years to react , its just slow... Adding Torrents took so damn long time ^^

And the hashing is so slow too...

Ever thought of a "light" version ? Im not trying to be somehow unfriendly , im just telling my thoughts on this great Client.

2, It looks so "old" and "boring"
--- There is nearly no Color in the GUI , the Webui looks really great , i never saw a more beautiful Webui. But why has Deluge need to look itself so old and somehow grey? Isnt there any possibility to make it more colorfull , or even try wo let it look like the webui?

Thats just my 2 cents ...

PS: Ever thought of the abilitiy to create Torrents with deluge?

blubb wrote:Hi,
I started using Deluge since i changes my Provider and Deluge is the only Client that allows me to Leech with my full Bandwith. Other Clients encryption ist too low i guess. I think Deluge has great Potential , it is afaik the only Client that runs on all possible OS. But there are a few things i dislike. Im going to list them ...

1, It is so big.
--- Why has Deluge ~10MB? (uTorrent only has 250kB) its the biggest Client i know , and i think thats one of the reasons why it is so >slow< . Im using WinXP , maybe its faster on other Plattforms , but isnt it possible to make Deluge run faster? I dont know to to describe that right , but it is just so slow , it needs years to react , its just slow... Adding Torrents took so damn long time ^^

And the hashing is so slow too...

Ever thought of a "light" version ? Im not trying to be somehow unfriendly , im just telling my thoughts on this great Client.

2, It looks so "old" and "boring"
--- There is nearly no Color in the GUI , the Webui looks really great , i never saw a more beautiful Webui. But why has Deluge need to look itself so old and somehow grey? Isnt there any possibility to make it more colorfull , or even try wo let it look like the webui?

Thats just my 2 cents ...

PS: Ever thought of the abilitiy to create Torrents with deluge?

1. Deluge is largely written in python. Windows doesn't natively run python applications so deluge bundles some python stuff with it. However its size shouldn't affect its performance - I'm not sure why it's running so slowly for you.

2. how is deluge's GUI much different from say utorrent's? I personally find it simple yet effective (although the linux version is slightly nicer). Being able to skin it would be cool but I don't think it's a high priority.

PS: enable the torrent creator plugin.

johnnyg wrote:2. how is deluge's GUI much different from say utorrent's? I personally find it simple yet effective (although the linux version is slightly nicer). Being able to skin it would be cool but I don't think it's a high priority.

It is already support skin by via GTK+2.

mezz wrote:It is already support skin by via GTK+2.

he's running deluge on windows, I'm not sure how easy that would be for him.

From developer's point of view, GUI is not as important as functionality. For now, priority is given to getting deluge and all it's features running properly and as stable as possible. There is no point wasting time creating an elegant GUI when it doesn't function properly. Would you rather have a working product looking simple or great looking product that always hang/crash.

johnnyg wrote:

mezz wrote:It is already support skin by via GTK+2.

he's running deluge on windows, I'm not sure how easy that would be for him.

http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/
http://www.rixsoft.com/gimpwin/gtk-themes.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=theme+gtk+windows

Windows version of deluge contains python and GTK libraries, there is no need on them in linux-> Ubuntu package weights only 2.3 mb. The same situation will be if uTorrent's developers will port it to Linux(that's why they don't want to port it). However deluge runs great, fast and uses very small part of resources.