It seems that qtella and limewire connect to completely different portions of the gnutella network. This never used to be the case, there was a time when almost every result I got searching in qtella was hosted on a limewire client. Now, virtually none. Doing the same search in both limewire and qtella shows dramatically which has the better connection, and I'm sorry to say it's limewire by a long ways. qtella's ui is leaps and bounds ahead, but the network connectivity is greatly lacking. I still don't seem to ever upload anything, and I haven't noticed the suposedly new swarm downloads in action.

I'm using the unstable 0.5.0 tar.gz under debian w/ KDE 2.2.2.

I LOVE some of the UI refinements, tho. Excluding files witht he same size as ones you already have is so simple yet sich a time saver. Seems lightning fast and responsive after limewire's java UI.

At this point I would suggest that development be strongly focused on improving connectivity and letting the GUI just completely sit for a while. Ransake the limewire core code, if nothing else. As much as I love qtella, it simply can't find rare files. For mp3s, its fine, there are so many people with every mp3 you might search for it makes no difference, but for rarer things, forget it.

Thanks,

-Dan