Stephan Sokolow (He/Him)

Yakuake being a frontend to Konsole is actually more correct than you might have guessed. Both Yakuake and Konsole are frontends to KonsolePart in the same way that both Dolphin and Konqueror's file-management mode are frontends to DolphinPart.

KDE has a system named KParts which is like ActiveX done properly (Reusable components... but without the design shortcomings that made them a security flaw.) and they love to make applications embeddable via it. (eg. In Konqueror, you can pick Filelight as a view mode for a folder or use KatePart to preview or edit text in a Konqueror tab.)

Konqueror is actually an interesting case there because, at its core, it's a tool for tying arbitrary KIOSlaves (reusable backends for reading data from URLs like file:///home/me/whatever.txt and http://www.example.com/) to arbitrary KParts (reusable components for displaying and/or editing data) like KHTML and DolphinPart with tmux-like window splitting support. It's a darn shame it's been effectively on life support in the 4.x series for lack of interest.

As for my preference, I use rxvt-unicode with the kuake extension script and GNU screen to get a much lighter analogue to Yakuake with detach/reattach support. (And I run zsh inside it for things like the really nice completion support)

As long as you're hosting your binary somewhere that supports requesting specific ranges within a file (download resuming, basically), you could try <a href="http://burnbit.com/">BurnBit</a>.

They generate trackerless torrents with your download link listed as a web seed and give you embed code for a button that'll show seeds and leechers.