Transmission In Lucid

By , Published February 17, 2010

Transmission is my preferred torrent client so I’m pretty stoked to see it not only get indicator applet support in Lucid but also a shiny new icon too!


Old on top, new on bottom


Transmissions’ indicator applet menu

Transmission 1.90
The 1.90 series of the p2p application will be included in Lucid and on the face of it there’s not a whole lot noticeably different. Check out the Lucid change-log for a list of bugs squashed.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/D4n13le Daniele

    they’re paying attention to details

    • insanelyapple

      oh really? did you saw sound icon? ;P

      • Anonymous

        the other sound icon was hard to see in almost any transparent panel (only very light wallpapers worked)

      • http://twitter.com/Sephiroth_VII Sephiroth_VII

        The sound icon is a placeholder ;)

  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    Cool! =D

    The only thing is… Ubuntu’s always doing its own thing, I just don’t know… Not very upstreamish. Also, so much work for something that is going to be dropped in gnome 3.0 — the next release! It’s just weird…

    • gdeb

      are you sure those indicator applets will be dropped in Gnome 3.0?

      Personnally, I think that those indicator thingies are great, and will really enrich the desktop experience. Can’t wait for Lucid to come out.

      • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

        Hmm well no, I’m not sure =S But as augias pointed out:

        “Not to mention that these non-essential indicators will migrate from panel to notification in gnome-shell”

        Also, there’d be some work porting it out to gtk 3 thingie…

    • Yi Sun-sin
      • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

        No, I don’t mean *this indicator* in Transmission, I mean *the indicators* in gnome ;)

        • Yi Sun-sin

          Oh ? Then, I’m totally supporting you on this ! That’s really a shame !

    • bhm

      Like it’s any new in FOSS overall.

    • http://twitter.com/florentthevenet Florent Thévenet

      Ubuntu is not in fault here. They use a KDE (freedesktop maybe) specification for their indicators while gnome-shell guys are creating their own thing.

      • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

        Yes, but I’m not talking about standarts, I’m talking about upstream. As Far As I Know, all this work on indicators are part of the Ubuntu distribution of gnome. It’s not part of vanilla gnome 2.30. This is not going to automatically end up on Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse..

        Also, Ubuntu has done lots of nice job in that matter, like improving knetworkmanager in KDE — it was a team effort and all.

  • http://www.linuxmint.com/ Jimbo

    Seeing the transmission icon in black and white makes me think, at what point do all these greyscale icons actually start to hinder usability? Having a transmission stick to represent torrent downloads is perhaps a bit vague to begin with, but strip out the colour and I’m not sure the icon even looks like a transmission stick anymore.

  • Mohan

    Transmission is excellent much better than the one Gnome had before. I do like Deluge better but lately been using Transmission.

  • augias

    Isn’t the design proposal across gnome to do away with menu icons like that? Not to mention that these non-essential indicators will migrate from panel to notification in gnome-shell. Still a nice icon and will make the panel look nice until lucid+1 I guess :)

    • http://mpt.net.nz/ mpt

      Yes, according to the guidelines I wrote up for these new menus, none of the items in the Transmission menu should use icons.
      https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CustomStatusMenuDesignGuidelines#icons

      But then, according to those same guidelines, Transmission really shouldn’t have a menu in the panel at all.

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        The menu mock up sans icons looks sooo much better. I thought i was being overly fussy by finding the “some with, somewith out” approach a little jarring.

  • Anonymous

    ooooo lovely!

  • http://twitter.com/Mawoon Jeffrey Vandenborne

    Lucid gets better and better :). I would love to see a new theme appearing in lucid, or at least some adjustments to the new brown theme. But so far, so good!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      According to Mark Shuttleworth there will be a nice new Metacity in Lucid but no new GTK theme.

      I suppose that doesn’t mean that there won’t be improvements to the current GTK theme though ;)

  • Borsook

    Am I the only one who thinks that those monochrome icons are less useable? The colour makes them easier to tell apart…

    • Ben

      Nope, you’re not the only one. Who’s ridiculous idea was it to ship Lucid with a monochrome icon theme by default? It’s not only ugly, it’s user-unfriendly.

  • Anonymous

    looks good that a good thing now ubuntu focus on making it more attractive

  • Anonymous

    Ugh. What’s with the fugly monochrome icons? I really like the old colourful ones.

  • http://linuxevolution.wordpress.com/ Cenwen

    DO0d, i was like you about Transmission but since one mouth i have discovered qBittorrent which a awesone application that i don’t use Transmission. You should just try and you have more explanations here :
    http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/
    http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=163414
    http://linuxfr.org/2009/12/12/26257.html

    • Anonymous

      it looks KDE dependent…maybe for kubuntu?

  • Dan

    Remember people Lucid is an LTS release they’re doing everything they can to polish it up because this is what will sell Ubuntu for the next two years. Sure the other releases will get new technology such as Gnome 3 but they’re not going to shop those to other companies.

    I also light the uniform monochrome icon set.

  • Vivian Jun

    Hi, d0od. Just a stupid question… What are your font settings? Font, size, dpi… Your screenshots looks nice, better than that huge default font of Ubuntu.

  • AC

    Am I the only one who sees transmission devour system resources like a fat guy at Ben and Jerry’s? For me, it has consistently been a resource hog in the last three distributions. I like it, but I don’t trust it.

  • Vivian Jun

    HI, d0od. Just a stupid question, nothing related to the topic… What are your font settings? Which font, size and DPI used… Your screenshots looks better than that huge default font of Ubuntu.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Haha! I guess they do.

      I use size 8 for everything bar the terminal (left at size 10) and the font i use in the screenshots above is DeJaVu Sans Book

      Everything else is left at default (96dpi, subpixel, slight)

  • Anonymous

    One of the big improvements I like in 1.9 is support for magnet links. :)

  • Emmett L Brown

    transmission can already minimize to the notification area, what is the point of an applet?

    • http://mpt.net.nz/ mpt

      This is part of a project to get rid of the notification area.

  • http://www.expatsinksa.com/ Bilal Akhtar

    WOW! Something that I was waiting for. Indicator applet for Transmission

  • http://twitter.com/jugney Colin Arndt

    Very nice. Now I won’t need to use AllTray every time I’m torrenting something to access Transmission from the tray.

  • MLC

    Oh noes, now I’m gonna’ have to turn the icon off. :

  • http://www.usedtransmission.org Used Transmission

    I wanna find more info about this, anybody could?