Re: [gnome-network]gnome-sync

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:04 -0600, Christopher Parker wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 05:26, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 15:40 -0600, Christopher Parker wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello folks,
> > > 
> > > I have been playing with the code for the gnome-sync and I have a few
> > > questions:
> > > 
> > > 1.  What is rsync going to use for the remote shell?  ssh?  Or will it
> > > be assumed that there will be a remote rsyncd running?
> > > 
> > > 2.  When the entryconfigdialog.c code creates the dialog with
> > > gtk_dialog_run creates the file dialog (from the browse button) I am
> > > unable to select anything from the file dialog.  Is this expected with
> > > gtk_dialog_run () or is this a bug?
> > > 
> > gnome-sync is currently unmaintained and there really is no plan for it.
> > If you've got ideas about it, please let us know.
> > 
> > I think it should probably be better to write plugins for nautilus to
> > add a 'Synchronize' menu item in the Nautilus context menu. How does
> > that sound?
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
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> The nautilus plug-in sounds like a good idea, but I am not sure how I
> would set it up.  What would you suggest?  A wizard-like interface? 
> What would the application look like?
> 
hmm, I think it could just be a dialog. When selecting the item from
Nautilus, you already have one directory (the selected one in Nautilus),
so just have to ask for the other directory to synchronize. I guess a
simple dialog could make it.

> I was just planning on hacking a bit on the current application, but it
> looks like a shell without any backend.
> 
it is just a work in progress never finished.

> I would like to hack around on this project if anyone could come up with
> some nice interface ideas.
> 
cool, if you like the nautilus plugin idea, then please work on that.

Does anybody have any comments?

cheers