[Owncloud] Feature Request: Choosing Which Folder to Sync

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 20:17:08 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Friday, August 03, 2012 19:21:08 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> > On 03.08.2012 19:18, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> > > In current client sync implementation, the user is either presented with
> > > a
> > > pre-defined sync location in the server, or the user needs to know the
> > > location by typing it exactly. So for example, if you want to sync some
> > > files under the folder /myfiles/work/project_a then you need to know
> > > this
> > > and type it in the client's server path location. (client warns if this
> > > is
> > > found or should be created)
> > >
> > > Instead of this, can this be done graphically, presenting the directory
> > > tree on the server and letting the user choose which directory he wants
> > > to
> > > sync with?
> >
> > Please create a feature request at bugs.owncloud.org
> 
> Has this happened? While doing the client side "pick folder to sync", I ran 
> into exactly that problem. I think a way to list folders would be necessary
> to make this a bit more usable on the client side. Will likely come up with
> an implementation shortly. =)

This by the way was easy enough to do, using KDE's KIO. Just browsing the 
owncloud server via webdav:// was very straightforward to implement. (Only 
works for the Plasma client, obviously, since KIO is a KDE dependency.)
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