Agreed. The new toolbar looks horrible and the buttons aren't distinctive enough sans color and large shapes.

I know why they're doing it though. It's because the background is so dark now. And the chiclets are nice and light. But I still think they could put some color in there (not just the Transmission folks, but everyone who's using the new chiclet buttons).

That seems like it'd be the site and the particular torrent rather than the application. I've had plenty of times when Azureus wouldn't connect and took forever to download a well-seeded torrent, and when Transmission quickly downloaded a poorly-seeded torrent. And vice versa.

And dude, any well-seeded torrent with 5000 peers is going to download more quickly than one with one tenth that. It's all about the seeds.

Text under buttons is ugly and it takes a second to learn what each button does. Not hard!

Oh I agree about the connecting to peers. Dead trackers = dead torrent in transmission. I loaded torrent in transmission and nothing was happening. Tracker was dead sadly. Open it in Azureus, connected to a number of peers and download done in a matter of time.

First point doesn't bother me because I never close the Inspector window.

Second point makes no sense to me because every 0.9 release worked fine for me and I've never hit an open torrent that refused me. I don't believe in signing up just to get something I can get elsewhere.

Third point definitely makes no sense because they're based on icons seen almost everywhere. I'll admit the Create Torrent File button is not obvious at first but the Open Torrent File is a picture of a folder, like in Smultron for example.

The Remove Torrent File button looks like the Delete button in Mail.app.

The Pause All button has a "pause" symbol.

The Resume All button has a "refresh" symbol like the one in Safari.

The Filter Bar button looks like a magnifying glass like Spotlight. The name may be just a little misleading but the image is not.

And what about the "i" for Information? The UI element may be called an Inspector but don't they provide the same thing?

Snail? Speed limiting maybe?

Moving into the Inspector itself, the first is an "i" for information, the second is the OS X network icon, the third is a picture of people, the fourth is the common symbol for a file, and the last is a cog which you can see in such apps as Demeter for Advanced Options.

Fourth point, well it really depends on where you are and what you are using. Transmission gives me just as many peers as my mate and yet all he gets is 3kBps using µTorrent. I get 20kBps off the same file. Azureus? No thanks. Not only is it slow internet wise, it has a slow UI. Can't speak for BitTornado because I've never used it and why bother?

And finally, the fifth point, who cares? There are usually more than one of the same file under many different trackers. I occasionally run into the odd Demonoid torrent but I soon find elsewhere. All it takes is a little knowledge of how to use Google.

I happen to agree that the Inspector window should show text rather than icons, if only because it's more standard to do so. But clearly they did it to make it more compact. And I agree that double-clicking should bring up the Inspector window although I wouldn't call it a "bug" that it doesn't.

Just don't tap your foot, you have been warned.

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