New download app?

In the last few days I was thinking about a new download application for GNOME. Why? Gwget codebase gets older and difficult to maintain. Also, as his name says, his concept is only a wget grafical front-end.

The idea behind a new program it’s to be modular, so it could download from many protocols (http/https, ftp, scp, bittorrent, metalink, etc.) and with a modern api that the rest of the platform could reach with easy.

I also know that there are another program, Gget but it seems that the project doesn’t progress too much. Why not help them? To be honest it’s in python and I don’t known it very well…

What do you think about ?

One thought on “New download app?”

  1. Hey,

    We would definitively need such a unified downloader. There are plenty of http/ftp downloaders but they all lack of scp support, and their integration to gnome not that good anyway.

    This piece of software simply doesn’t exist yet for gnome, there is potential in developping such a thing.

    Kaf/

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