Varia is a simple download manager that conforms to the latest Libadwaita design guidelines, integrating nicely with GNOME. It uses the amazing aria2 to handle the downloads.
Varia supports some basic functionality you'd expect from a download manager such as resuming incomplete downloads upon relaunch, but (right now) doesn't support saving files outside of your default download directory. I want to change this in the future while still having a minimal set of permissions with Flatpak.
Varia is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
But, it also application relies on the following pieces of software:
- aria2: GPL v2 License (aria2 itself relies on OpenSSL: OpenSSL License)
- aria2p: ISC License
The licenses of all of these pieces of software can be found in the dependencies_information directory in this application's app directory.
Contributions are always welcome, of course! I have not set up translations yet, and this time I want to utilize the .po files to do it. I will update this section once that is in.
Also, I really want to change the logo as it's something I hastly hacked together in Krita. If you can make a logo that conforms to the GNOME logo design guidelines, that would be amazing!
The name "Varia" comes from the aria2 software it is based on, and I added a "V" to make it "Varia". In the Metroid series of games, there is a special suit you eventually get named a "Varia Suit" with its main feature being allowing Samus to withstand extreme temperatures. I spent some time thinking about how to connect the Varia Suit to my app, but couldn't, soooo... I think it just sounds cool.