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Re: Transmission v4.0

#121

I use it but I don't like how the app language = system language, you can't change it >It's not technically challenging to add a drop-down list of languages to the UI, as least for the Qt client, but I'm still not convinced it'll be used by a lot of people. https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1152

On MacOS you can set specific language for each app from the system settings, so It should be possible to set Transmission's language too.

Re: Transmission v4.0

#122

I use it but I don't like how the app language = system language, you can't change it >It's not technically challenging to add a drop-down list of languages to the UI, as least for the Qt client, but I'm still not convinced it'll be used by a lot of people. https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1152

Almost all Mac apps work this way. All apps use the global language and region settings. It would be against platform conventions to override the system settings, and in my opinion it's a waste of developer time to add such a setting in the app (especially because that popup needs to be tested, maintained, localized....).

If you really want the app to use a different language than the system, you can just override the user default per app:

    defaults write org.m0k.transmission AppleLanguages '(de_at)'

Re: Transmission v4.0

#123

I use it but I don't like how the app language = system language, you can't change it >It's not technically challenging to add a drop-down list of languages to the UI, as least for the Qt client, but I'm still not convinced it'll be used by a lot of people. https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1152

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Re: Transmission v4.0

#124
The app told me that there was an update available. I clicked on install, it downloaded an 8MB binary, installed and restarted it within a few seconds. After years of apps which update twice a week by downloading half a GB and then waste my time by grabbing focus multiple times in a row while restarting (hello Signal), this was the best update experience I can remember in a long time.

Re: Transmission v4.0

#126

The app told me that there was an update available. I clicked on install, it downloaded an 8MB binary, installed and restarted it within a few seconds. After years of apps which update twice a week by downloading half a GB and then waste my time by grabbing focus multiple times in a row while restarting (hello Signal), this was the best update experience I can remember in a long time.

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Re: Transmission v4.0

#130

how does this differ from qbittorrent?

It looks like a Mac app on macOS instead of a relic of Windows XP. (I use qbittorrent as well, it performs well and would work with some trackers that didn't play nice with Transmission 3).
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