Flow daemon

A download manager daemon for Linux written in Rust. This is part of the major architecture overhaul I am doing to Flow project. The aim is to make the download manager distribution and desktop environment agnostic and everyone can create a GUI to it for their favorite desktop environment or TUIs.

The GUI I will support is a GNOME application.

This project is still in early development and unstable.

Docs are coming soon! :)

Features

• Manage downloads
• Auto-categorize downloads
• Queuing and scheduling
• Multi-connections downloads
• Support more protocols

API

To communicate with the daemon, it exposes a DBus interface. You will be able to manage downloads through it.

Installation

Compile the daemon, then run the installation script

cargo build --release
./install.py

install.py takes these arguments:

• --install-path or -i to change the installation path for the binary. The default path is /usr/local/bin.
• --debug or -d to install the debug target instead of the release target.
• --no-target or -n to install only data files without copying the target.