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Goals

Ability to control download types:
Direct (http, ftp)
p2p
System
Local data

Take over of bandwidth sharing between downloads

Simple, but not plain UI
Separate Home and Advanced user interfaces.

Integartion in OS and aplications
Nepomuk
Media Manager
Music player
Archiving tool
kioslaves
Web browser
etc.














Imagine you use hi-Speed Wifi at work, mid-speed DSL at home, expensive 3G on the go. In all these cases

Plain and separate download managers are the remaining from the past. I believe that a global OS Get (download) center must take their place.

What do I want to say by Linux Get Center - LGC?

Why LGC

Managing bandwidth problems

Managing downloaded items itself.

It is ONE application, that handles basically all traffic that goes though your PC: http, ftp, torrent, svn downloads, system updates, net browsing etc. and assigns priority for each item downloaded.
easy to use (regular mode) yet very powerful (advanced mode)


Managing bandwidth problems

Imagine you don't have hi-speed DSL at home, but need at the same time you need to get some torrents, update system ad browse net. Result - you get verrrry slow browsing or limit torrent speed ad waste bandwidth while you are just reading the text.

Having ONE application, that distributes bandwidth, could solve this problem.
Being a local Proxy, LGC would set all traffic though XXX port as real time priority for web browsing, traffic though YYY port low priority (updates), and torrents as normal.