Hi, i am a big fan of shadow's client. And it's great to here about developing a mutli-client console for it. And sorry for my rusty firework skill.
I would like the new Bittorando to look unquie and simple. Not like other BT client with a table of stuff. What i like about the shadow's client is the light, it tells you instantly what the hell is going on with your torrent. SO i think it should be the "selling point" of this new GUI.
The idea is a list of BIG light which shows the info that matter, How many did it download and how fast. The % will be BIG inside the light, that should be pretty informative. I think something can be worked on how to present the name, but listing it below the light will be a temp normal solution. Then, below the name will be the ONLY transfer rate that matter, that is download speed for a non-complete one and the upload speed for a seed. This will make things simple.
User can access other info either by clicking the light, while will loop through other info like share rate, speed of both download/upload, MB downloaded, total, uploaded.
When you select the "torrent light", it display the regular shadow's client interface, which i guess will require less coding. I think there should be an upload setting for EACH torrent, for sometime u want to seed something that has less seed and not seeding for those with lots of seed already. Then i think a seed timer will be cool.
This is just an idea, i guess someone can do better graphic and such.
Hope you like it.