[Owncloud] Introduction of Cloudia

Mon Sep 5 10:41:00 UTC 2011

That looks great!

It also reminds me that there’s a similar tool for Gnome / Ubuntu (does it
work on Kubuntu/KDE as well?)
Deja Dup: http://launchpad.net/deja-dup
Which basically synchronizes local stuff with remote storage, supporting
several protocols.

WebDAV is listed as a protocol but I couldn’t get it to work with ownCloud
when I tried (already a while ago).
It would be great if someone could try it and let me know how it goes.
I’ll then add it to the website.

On Thu, September 1, 2011 17:50, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'd like to introduce you to Cloudia.
>
> Cloudia came to me last weekend and it helps me to interact with
> Owncloud. It is a semi-automatic sync client for the Owncloud for the
> desktop written using Qt. Find a screenshot here:
>    http://paste.opensuse.org/40583958
>
> Currently it monitors the directory $HOME/Owncloud and tells you about
> the status of the sync. In case its not in sync, you have two buttons
> "Sync to Owncloud" and "Sync from Owncloud" to fix that. It doesn't do
> that automatically for you yet. That would be possible but I don't
> always really want that.
>
> Technically, Cloudia dedicates all the nifty sync stuff to a cool little
> tool called sitecopy [1]. So you can see Cloudia as a fronted for
> sitecopy as well. Make sure to have the sitecopy package installed.
>
> I would love to hear what you think about Cloudia. If you like to try
> it, please either use packages from the open build service, project
> home:kfreitag [2] or compile from source. The code is currently in the
> KDE SVN, in the module playground/office. If you feel its a useful
> supplement to Owncloud, I will probably continue to work on it.
>
> One important downside currently: the url of the used Owncloud is
> hardcoded to http://localhost/oc/ . If you use another url, please open
> the file mainwindow.cpp, go to line 26 and change the host and path
> accordingly. I know that is silly and will be fixed.
>
> For authentification, Claudia enters the name of the logged in user
> automatically into the config file .sitecopyrc. Add a password to it
> inserting the line
>   password xxxx
> manually after Cloudias first run or put the password in your file
> $HOME/.netrc .
>
> have fun,
>
> Klaas
>
> [1] http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/
> [2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kfreitag/
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