https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196703
--- Comment #8 from Bernd Steinhauser <li...@bernd-steinhauser.de> --- (In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #7) > Hmm, okay. Thanks for elaborating. Still, only because a GUI for this is > implemented in Dolphin, it will not automatically be pretty. And if there > was a pretty GUI for this in an external application, Dolphin could point > users there. I don't see a good reason why this should be integrated into > Dolphin directly. > I think it would be absolutely fine if this would end up in dolphin-plugins. > Ah okay. There really are a lot of settings there. It does seem to be its > own window, so from what I can tell this window could also be put in a > separate application. I also see that there are already applications which > are meant to be GUIs for rsync. A quick online search gives me Grsync (not > sure if this one still exists) and Unison > (https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison). > True, there are definitely tools that are dedicated to being a frontend to rsync. Actually there have even been various kdelibs/kde-frameworks-based tools that did at least something similar. That's why I would never pitch for a complete implementation of a rsync frontend (or any other matter of syncing) in dolphin. If you need that, get a specialized tool. However, a simplified version, be it rsync-based or not, could still be useful. i.e. something that tackles the most common use case with only very few options, but doesn't get too complicated. Similar to the situation with git, svn etc. dolphin-plugins does have an implementation for those, but only tackles the most common use cases. For anything more specific, you have to use something else. For me, such an interface could be: - Add a sync panel that can be shown/hidden (like e.g. the terminal) - In that have a compare and a sync button - Specify sync direction (left -> right or right -> left) - Delete yes/no - If one or multiple files are selected in the source tab, sync only those I think that should be enough for most users. All those advanced options in FC (some of which I sometimes use, but it's rare) are likely irrelevant for most users. Even tough I personally know rsync quite well and use it on a regular basis (without a UI), I think I would still use such an interface sometimes. e.g. I sometimes use dolphin to have a local and a remote tab (fish:// to my other computer) open and then sync some documents between them over the network. I can use rsync there, but it would be faster to use an integrated sync function (that maybe calls rsync), especially if I have to select specific folders to sync. I would never bother with opening another program for that, then I'd just enter the lines in the terminal instead. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
