File synchronization plugin idea

[Avamander]

I think there are better file synchronization software out there than KDE
Connect ever could be, it's simply just a lot of work, take a look at
Syncthing if you need something free. File access is another topic though
(really appreciate that feature).




Avamander

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 12:39 AM Nicolas Fella <feeenico at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> file syncing is something that has been requested several times and it
> would allow some nice use cases. There is some old work on it on the
> desktop side (https://cgit.kde.org/kdeconnect-kde.git/log/?h=filesync)
> but there is no code for Android yet. I also had the idea of leveraging the
> SFTP plugin for it, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea since it's a bit
> unstable.
>
> If you have some PoC code please share it with us so we can discuss it
> further.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nico
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 16:04 Viktor Porvaznik <viktor.porvaznik at gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using kdeconnect on openSUSE and find it very useful app. I have
>> following two use cases that I have solved but I was wondering about more
>> elegant solution (and if it would be worth it).
>>
>> First I have an encrypted pw safe data (and possibly some other private
>> data) that I have on my phone, desktop, laptop. Once in a while when I
>> create new entry or edit an existing one I update the pw safe db and I need
>> to copy that manually between all devices. Depending on a frequency that
>> might be quite often. For security reasons I dont use cloud and everything
>> is offline only copied over USB or private wifi. To facilitate I was
>> thinking to make shell scripts that will do the job and use it trough
>> execute command plugin but I find that very specific to the problem.
>>
>> Second use case would be photos. I am often taking photos (even have
>> private cloud backup) but I would like to have all photos downloaded /
>> synchronized to set folder on my pc, and even possibly to execute some post
>> copy - processing shell scripts once all photos are downloaded e.g.
>> conversion of photos, resize, upload to gallery.
>>
>> I was thinking to write stuff just for myself (or just keep it as shell
>> scripts) but then I was wondering whether it would be maybe a good idea to
>> make it more generic? I was considering to implement it a plugin. The issue
>> is that tt would be depending on sftp plugin which creates dependency not
>> only on a base app.
>>
>> I would have an initial idea (even have a crude prototype) and I have
>> some more technical questions if it turns out to be a good idea. I am new
>> to D-Bus stuff and I find it pretty interesting, so please any comments are
>> welcome.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> BR,
>> Viktor
>>
>>
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