Platero

Info

Main
News
Download
Install
Screenshots
Mailing Lists
Bug report

Platero is a graphical user interface to the p2p meta network client mldonkey for KDE.

Platero integrates nicely with KDE. It feature list includes elinks for Konqueror, a tray icon, a unified look and feel and much more. Simply check it out.

Currently its developed under GNU/Linux but should work on other UN*X flavors, any usage reports are welcome.

Outstanding features:

It's integrated into the KDE desktop. Platero uses the same settings as the rest of KDE. Additionally it offers a system tray icon, edonkey 2000 links for Konqueror, and some other neat features...
It's fast and efficient. The main goal of Platero is to provide a cleanly designed, fast and efficient (in terms of memory consumption) MlDonkey GUI.
It's Free Software. Everything is free software (GPL) and programmed in C++ using Qt and KDE. Contributions / feature requests are always welcome.

News

04-11-2003 New CVS SnapShot packages available

A new CVS snapshot package is available for download. There are a tarball package, a Debian package and a RPM package 'alienized' from the Debian one. Enjoy!!

27-10-2003 New screenshots

Take a look at the new screenshots!

08-10-2003 CVS SnapShot package available

A CVS snapshot package is available for download. The major changes are:

* Color selector for downloadrate bar of systray.
* New stats tab for uploads and downloads rates.
* Added elapsed time column to downloading list view.
* Tray icon show if we are connected to the core.
* Moved link from Applications to Internet menu.
* Added Debian menu file.
* Updated gui protocol to version 16.
* Added sourcesList to the info window.
* Added web search with a lot of sites.
* Added network and type selections in search tab.
* Show correct avaiability chunk bar for non donkey networks.
* And of course, a lot of bugfixes.

23-08-2003 Platero 1.0Beta2 (Codename FERIA) released!

Too much changes to be listed here, just check it out!

06-04-2003 Send elinks from Opera to Platero!

- Create a script with this:

#!/bin/sh

dcop platero DownloadIface sendElink "ed2k://$1"

- Save it with the name sendelink
- put the correct permissions: chmod a+x sendelink
- add in ~/.opera/opera6.ini the following text:

[Trusted Applications]

ed2k=<path to the script>/sendelink

or for opera 7:

ed2k=<path to the script>/sendelink %u

- Under [User Prefs] add:

TrustedExternalURLProtocols=ed2k

27-03-2003 Platero 0.1 beta1 released

This is the first release, still beta. Please report bugs!

Download

Debian Package : platero_0.2_i386.deb
Tar Package : platero_0.2_i386.tar.gz

Install

Currently there are no precompiled .rpm packages available. Download the source from our project page and compile it your self (Note that you must have the Qt 3.0+ and KDE 3.0+ headers, libraries and devopment tools installed):

tar zxvf platero-<version>.tar.gz
cd platero-<version>
./configure --prefix=<your_kde_basedir>
make
su -c "make install"

or you can try the debian package created with checkinstall also in the download area of the project page.

Screenshots (click to enlarge)

The downloads tab with the file sources and downloaded files visible.

The file info dialog.

The network search tab

The web search tab

The servers dialog

The tray icon

The Platero settings dialog

The Mldonkey settings dialog

The friends tab

The status tab

The console tab

Developers:
Victor Romero
Carlos Acedo
Andreas Lauser
Javier Hernández
Manuel Rodríguez