Hello, Stef! I'm the maintainer of the current backup software pre-installed in Ubuntu (deja-dup).
That menu item is installed by deja-dup via a nautilus extension. Feel free to copy that code and use it for your own software (it's GPL and small). As for a generic integration API, I feel like that would fall under the trap of "one more standard" that would suffer from buy-in. Like, I don't think you'd get many of the various backup authors to be interested. Nor would there likely be interest from several of the desktop environments, who might want a more tightly coupled experience (I can imagine GNOME only wanting to cater to a GNOME Backup program for example). -mt On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Stef Bon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a developer of a backup project. It's called fuse-backup, and aims to > provide easy access to backup and earlier versions through a fuse > filesystem. > > It's using btrfs to create snapshots, sqlite to keep track of what has > been changed ans what versions of a file are available, and a fuse fs to > provide easy access and a simple interface to manage backups. > > One of the things I want to achieve is integration with Dolphin, the > filebrowser in KDE. I want to make it possible to add an option to the > context menu per file to show versions. The most I want is that Dolphins > expands the file with all the versions available. > > See: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/fusebackup/ > > The screenshots will give some explanation I hope. > > I've been looking at the existing versioncontrolplugin API of Dolphin, > but it looks like I need something else. Now on one my computers I have the > latest Ubuntu desktop version installed, and I see that in the filemanager > in Unity there is already such an option:"Revert to Previous Version...". > > You are ahead of me ! > But isn't it a good idea to develop a common api to deal with various > backup sollutions? > To work with different filemanagers and different backup software? > > Stef Bon > the Netherlands > > > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > > -- -mt
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