[Owncloud] Sync Icons

Fri Aug 24 17:04:09 UTC 2012

Hi Juan,

your are right. It´s not important for this part. But the next logical step could is to show the sync status as a small overlay icon on the file or folder itself in the filemanager. So you can see that only a part of the files are synced. Dropbox does something like that.
But perhaps I´m getting  ahead of myself ;-)

Frank

On 24.08.2012, at 18:43, Juan Carlos Cornejo <mylists at paintblack.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This seems like something I can work on. But, why would one need to
> know about file managers for all platforms? Is relying on csync to let
> us know when it has finished a sync not be good enough?
> 
> Best,
> Juan Carlos
> 
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> you are right of course. This is a very important feature.
>> So it would be great if someone would volunteer to help to implement this feature. :-)
>> This requires some good Qt knowledge and also insights in Mac/Windows/KDE/Gnome
>> Filemanagers to implement this for every platform
>> 
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> On 24.08.2012, at 18:17, Matthias Wulkow <mylists at saasweb.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I just want to jump into this topic as I believe it is more relevant
>>> than many people think... at least with a visible activity feedback,
>>> what happened to me today, wouldn't have..
>>> 
>>> I copied quite a lot of files and folders from my work pc into my
>>> owncloud folder and waited, as for sure I know that files need a certain
>>> time to be uploaded. When I thought time is enough, I quit and went
>>> home. Now, at home, I see that half of the files are missing..
>>> 
>>> Some visual feedback about sync status is very important!! ;-) I believe
>>> that the dropbox icon is a good option; a general "syncing status" like
>>> a colored/animated ownCloud icon on the task bar or so could be already
>>> helpful.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards to everyone and enjoy the week-end
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>>> Hi again,
>>>> 
>>>> I meant the notification icon in the indicator (in Ubuntu), and I
>>>> guess the equivalent for Mac OS X and Win.
>>>> 
>>>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>>>> Daniel Holm
>>>> IT Consultant
>>>> Web Developer
>>>> Student, Enviromental Political Science
>>>> Tel: +46 76-1650946
>>>> admin at danielholm.se
>>>> http://www.danielholm.se
>>>> 
>>>> Den tor  9 aug 2012 03:02:14 skrev Jan-Christoph Borchardt:
>>>>> Hey Steve, Daniel,
>>>>> 
>>>>> where exactly do you mean should the sync icons be? The sync clients
>>>>> should have sync icons in the taskbar, notification area, however it
>>>>> is called – just like the Dropbox client does.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or do you mean the web interface? In this case, yes, each item which
>>>>> is set up to sync needs to have a small status icon as part of the
>>>>> file icon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Daniel Holm <admin at danielholm.se> wrote:
>>>>>> I would also like that. The status window has sync icons.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>>>>>> Daniel Holm
>>>>>> IT Consultant
>>>>>> Web Developer
>>>>>> Student, Enviromental Political Science
>>>>>> Tel: +46 76-1650946
>>>>>> admin at danielholm.se
>>>>>> http://www.danielholm.se
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Den lör  4 aug 2012 11:27:08 skrev Steve James:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I know this is not dropbox ... I am trying to move away from dropbox
>>>>>>> and now see that V4 of ownCloud now has sync clients :)  Is it
>>>>>>> possible to have an icon to show that it has been sync just like
>>>>>>> dropbox ?  A status box showing upload/sync etc ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>> 
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