Hi everyone. This is my first mail on the list.
I am working alot with web development, and after a pretty good while doing my regular sftp's to my servers, I am getting tired. GNOME is wonderful, and suit my daily needs perfect. It is fast, realiable, and really productive to use. I've been using GNOME since the 1.3 release, and I'm stunned over the rapid development of the project. One thing that would increase ( at least my ) productivity even more, would be a simple way to sync my local web site folders, with the ones online. Since I prefer developing pages offline, on my local httpd, and then upload them, there is often a little difference on the online/offline version of the sites, and it does kind of throw me back and forward... ( Fix a bug online, forget to make the change offline, create a new feature offline, upload it, BUG IS BACK...) I was thinking about writing some kind of applet, where I could click sync - select a configuration - and then the system would use ssh to sync the local files and directories with the remote ones, ( to my servers running rsync ). I thought about using glade to accomplish this, but I googled a little first, and found this thread on the list archive: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-network-list/2004-March/msg00000.html I thought to myself, why reinvent the wheel? ;-) So I am a little interested in the progress of the gnome-sync, I have poor experience with interface programming, since most of my work is based on Web/database applications ( php/mysql ). My idea of concept, is a really simple configuration app, like the "folder sharing" introduced in 2.10 ( I think it was 2.10? ) Then use some kind of applet on the panel to access the different configurations. Using ssh is a great alternative, since it provides a fast and secure transfer of files. There might be a little problem for those who only have FTP access to their sites, but there should be possible to create something using FTP as well. What we need is something general that everybody can use, despite of mean ISP's not providing ssh. ( Unfortuneatly not everybody administrate their own servers. ) So, what kind of frameworks whould an app like this use? Is there anything like this avaible in the world of GNOME, or do we have to create it? Long post, but lets hope I got it clear ( english is not my native language as you see ;-) ) If anyone has a good idea on HOW to solve this, I could try to make a sample application, and we'll se if it works. Cheers! -- MVH. / Yours sincerely Morten Albrigtsen _______________________________________________ gnome-network-list mailing list gnome-network-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-network-list