transgui

That UI may make some sense on mobile where a finger, which is bigger than a mouse pointer, must operate bigger controls comfortably; but on desktop? Nope, old interfaces win over "modern" ones any day. For example, down that page there's a Transmission remote GUI screenshot (I use it as Transmission here is a daemon on my headless XigmaNAS server). https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui What would be wrong with it or anything similar? Every information is just there, no need to swipe left and right to read information that has been either hidden elsewhere or, worse, taken away. The same applies to many "old" clients such as QBittorrent and others. I understand that design is important, but it should never ever win over functionality.

Related: the Transmission Remote GUI that allows to control the client from elsewhere. I use it with the Transmission client contained in the XigmaNAS NAS software which I run headless. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

Actually, not such a bad question, if worded poorly. There's at least Synapse[1]. It even has a third-part broker to accept transmission GUIs by Drew DeVault[2]. Why didn't they just reuse Transmission protocol from the get-go, to leverage the great Transmission-Remote-GUI[3] for example, is beyond me. Unfortunately, there's just not enough interest in the project and no adoption. Transmission, at least previously, never have been too resource-friendly, so a lean and mean Rust alternative would be great. 1. https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse 2. https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/broca/ 3. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui