Bring qBittorrent to Windows Store and Xbox

[darktron]

What possibilities are there to port qBittorrent to uwp and put it in the Microsoft store?
which means simplicity to upgrade and make it available to Xbox users.
It would be great.

Thanks for qBittorrent. 

[Nemo]

Welcome,

I don't think that this would happen anytime soon, or even never.

Why would you want it on a console though?

[megapolom]

I, too, wish to see this in windows store, mostly for ease of upgrading. Shit, if it was below 5€, I'd even pay for it. Lets be honest, qBittorent is the best client right now. Having said that, I understand that the decision is 100% in the hands of the dev team, and I guess I'm just hoping we get the Windows store version rather later than never.

Thanks for all the hard work, you guys are awesome 

[AnthonyB]

There are already numerous Torrent clients in the Windows Store so there's no reason that qBt would not be accepted simply because it is a torrent client.

Having it in the Windows Store via the Desktop Bridge purely for the purpose of auto-updating alone would be great. Ease of installation and uninstallation, ability for devs to get telemetry on app usage, broader visibility of the app to general public are all other benefits or varying degree.

[Peter]

[quote="megapolom"]
I, too, wish to see this in windows store...
[/quote]

The Windows Store is still a mess. There is only one client there, called "picoTorrent" and it is sooo limited in terms of knowledge and functionality.... I mean the UWP platform itself forces the program to be very limited. I don't think the Store will ever get fixed or qBittorrent will appear there in the next decade. Microsoft had another chance at the Store thing with Windows 10 and oh boy, they messed up again. Just like Windows Phone. No matter how many times people tried to give them a chance, they always messed up. :-/

[AnthonyB]

[quote="Peter"]
The Windows Store is still a mess. There is only one client there, called "picoTorrent" and it is sooo limited in terms of knowledge and functionality.... I mean the UWP platform itself forces the program to be very limited. I don't think the Store will ever get fixed or qBittorrent will appear there in the next decade. Microsoft had another chance at the Store thing with Windows 10 and oh boy, they messed up again. Just like Windows Phone. No matter how many times people tried to give them a chance, they always messed up. :-/
[/quote]

Well.. I'm seeing a lot more than 1 torrent client.. searching on "torrent" in the Store on my Windows 10 PC yields 34 results which does include a mixture of remote clients, free/paid-for clients, etc.

I'm also not sure if you fully understand that being in the store doesn't necessary mean being "UWP" and what "UWP" actually is. No-one is saying qBt has to be rebuilt. The desktop bridge can turn a classic Win32 application into a Store app (yes, with some modifications). This is a very similar discussion to what was had in the Kodi forums (similar audience ; it will never be a Store app people said. It *can't* be a store app people said. Then the devs worked with Microsoft for a few days and the tune suddenly changed to "we were really surprised at how easy it was and how helpful Microsoft were..". Kodi is now available through the store as well as a standard MSI installer download with total feature parity.

All I'm suggesting is to be open minded