GNOME Transfer Manager (gtm)? I was just about to download the latest episode of LUGradio, and I thought, hang on - I’d rather galeon didn’t handle the download in case it bombs out and I have to go and try rescuing the half-downloaded file and resuming the transfer with a ‘wget -c’ or something. Then I remembered using gtm a few years back. I haven’t used it since I switched my laptop from RedHat to Debian a few years ago.

apt-get pulled down a package with a release number that suggested it came from a CVS snapshot from 2003. I fired it up and it basically works. Help > About suggests that Bruno Pires Marinho stopped maintaining gtm sometime after version 0.4.12 back in August 2002. This is a real shame, as I don’t think anything has come along since to replace or better it (someone please correct me if I’m wrong). I don’t see anything to suggest that Bruno has given up maintaining it, but I don’t see any kind of activity in the last couple of years.

It all looks good, but I see that the status panel applet no longer works. I expect that’s because of the newer fd.org spec. If I wasn’t already overcommitted, I’d grab it out of CVS and have a go at fixing it up to all the latest standards and conventions. It definitely needs just a little bit more love and a fresh release (maybe a 1.0?). I just tried subscribing to the mailing list described on the homepage, but it bounced.