Hello Theo and everyone, I'm curious is anything has been turned up that Theo was asking about (he was wondering if there is a KDE-equivalent of "unison-gtk")? I find myself hankering for a tool like this as well, for a slightly different but very common and useful purpose. Let me illustrate with this example:
I have a Windows box and a Linux box. An SSH server is running on the Linux box, and several folders on the Windows box are shared out which I can read and write to from Konqueror (or dolphin), using an URI like "smb://windows_box/some_share". KDE kioslaves kick butt, I tell you. Simple, graphical file copying is not a problem in either direction between these 2 machines. I can use Konqueror or Dolphin in Linux, and I can use winscp in Linux. But simple, graphical file synchronizing is where I have a need to fulfill. I have a folder on the Linux box and another folder on the Windows box that I want to keep in sync, regardless of which of the two machines I'm sitting at. When I'm sitting at the Windows box, I can synchronize these 2 folders using Unison for Windows, which works well (thanks to the SSH server on the Linux box). Now, when I'm sitting at my Linux box and want to synchronize in the other direction, things get ugly. The best technique I can come up with for now is to "smbmount" the windows directory, then use unison-gtk, syncronizing the Linux folder with the Windows folder, which is now mounted somewhere. eg: mount -t smbfs -o "username=some_user,password=some_pwd" //windows_box/some_share /mnt/windows ...but this technique has two drawbacks. It is not graphical, and it requires root access (or some sudo configuring, which is also not terribly convenient) If there were only some KDE equivalent to unison-gtk, then I would be able to specify my destimation folder to sync to using an URI like above (eg. "smb://windows_box/some_share"), taking advantage of the KDE kioslaves. I feel this would be the most straightforward solution, and would basically make it possible to synchronize from a Linux box to a Windows box (for the average user who wants a graphical tool for everything and doesn't want to write little scripts). So in conclusion, I echo Theo's question, asking if there is such a thing. Cheers, Dustin Harriman My Blog: http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/dustinharriman RSS Feed: http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-RkGSoVA1brWtXrVH9Gr5CzgVujwwGg--?cq=1 "Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices" -Francis Moore Lappé
