Transmission

Seems a bit much. Minimal mode gets you info at a glance - the dark bar makes the cells too crowded imho.

I'll grant you that, but the problem I have is that there's not enough contrast between the colour of the progress bar, and the white background. It's hard to distinguish between them at a ...

I like it, with the caveat that the pastel colours are a bit washed out on my old lcd.

Could a solid border be added to the bottom? Something like this: http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9913/transmissionw.png

Another minor issue is that the progress bar is invisible when a torrent is selected ...

I'd find this awfully useful as well. Alternatively a filter option would accomplish something similar.