DownloadM - GTK2 download manager/accelerator using aria2 as a backend

EDIT: Now on AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41384)
Hello friends.
Since I couldn't find any good GUI download accelerators for Linux I thought that many people could benefit from aria2 if it had a nice GUI.
I started developing DownloadM for that purpose.
My brother (nick vbCrLf) helps me with it.
I use C++, gtkmm, xmlrpc-c, and the IDE is qtcreator hence the project uses qmake.
It is currently functional but not complete at all. Here is a screenshot:
Current limitations:
1) No way to configure almost anything.
2) Always downloads to $HOME/Downloads
many more...
It has at least one nice feature. If you close it before a download is finished, the download will be resumed the next time you open DownloadM.
Here is the project page: https://sourceforge.net/p/downloadm/. You can download a tarball from there.
The git repo is there also.
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/downloadm/git.git
To build the project, one needs to run "make" in each directory. The build order is:
1) Entities
2) aria2c_com
3) DownloadM
4) GUI
The executable's name is "downloadm".
I'm not sure what the dependencies are . I guess it's something like:
aria2 xmlrpc-c gtkmm
Note: The program creates the folder $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/DownloadM
I know there is still a long way to go but since it's already functional I thought I would share it with you.
It is also my first real-world project so feel free to share from your experience.
Any thoughts are welcome.
Thanks.
A PKGBUILD is in the making (below). My first try. I need help
EDIT: It works now. I'm pretty sure I did things in a weird way but it works.
# Maintainer: SoleSoul <j.lahav ta gmail tod com>
pkgname=downloadm
pkgver=0.1.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A download accelerator/manager which uses aria2c as a backend."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://sourceforge.net/p/downloadm/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('gtkmm' 'xmlrpc-c' 'aria2' 'libsigc++')
makedepends=('qt')
source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/downloadm/DownloadM-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('cd9dc47c2095c1df2f4bf9ee9052145e')
build() {
cd DownloadM
cd Entities
qmake && make
cd ../aria2c_com
qmake && make
cd ../DownloadM
qmake && make
cd ../GUI
qmake && make
package() {
mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/bin/
cp $srcdir/DownloadM/GUI/downloadm $pkgdir/usr/bin/
mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/downloadm/
cp $srcdir/DownloadM/GUI/downloadm.glade $pkgdir/usr/share/downloadm/
Last edited by SoleSoul (2010-10-03 10:57:08)

In order to make DownloadM easier to test I want to make a PKGBUILD for it and upload it to the AUR. I am starting to write one on the first post. Any help is welcome.
I think I need to sort out a few things before it would be possible to write a proper PKGBUILD. Lets do it one by one.
Is it a good practice to hard-code the location of the .glade file to "/usr/share/downloadm/downloadm.glade" ? If not, how should I specify it's location?
Right now the steps necessary to prepare a package are to compile it by running "make" in each directory by the order specified in the first post. Maybe qmake has to be invoked also to create a correct release makefile?
Then we need to move the executable to somewhere (/usr/bin/downloadm?) and the glade file also (/usr/share/downloadm/downloadm.glade?)
I think that's it. Am I right?

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