Because UbuntuOne has the "Connect" / "Disconnect" options, my natural mental model is that it is a remote disk, that needs mounting (or automounting at startup), but which has a cache on a local disk that can be used when offline.
I don't really see it should be considered as an area in a regular file system with magic cloud properties. I might be persuaded toward the other view, that these are local files which are kept synchronised. But only if I am allowed to apply that "synchronise" property to any file or directory (maybe restricted to within my home directory). There's no good reason I can think of why it should be limited to a single UbuntuOne directory - I might want to have synchronised music, photos, some odd files, browser bookmarks and saved passwords, but not browser cache or plugins, to give an example. "Unison" comes to mind - I currently use that to synchronise several directories and files. Now the front-end of Unison is rather limited, necessitating text file editing to get the desired effect. But having that level of flexibility with a neat GUI that would let me open up "synchronise properties" on any file or directory would be great. Andrew Yeomans 2009/9/25 Alan Bell <[email protected]> but the files are *not* on a remote server. They are on your disk in > your home directory. You just work on them there or drag them in or out > depending on whether you want them in or out of that area of your home > directory. It is just a portion of your home directory where a remote > server peeks in every so often and looks at what you have there. If you > hold control down whilst dragging then it will create a copy, but I > don't quite get why you would want two copies of it by default. > > Alan. > > Forrest Sheng Bao wrote: > > I think, in one word, things should be as easy as iDisk on Mac OS X. > > In iDisk, Mac OS X treats your folder on MobileMe remote server as a > > disk and makes you access remote files like you access files on local > > harddrive. I think NFS also made this years ago. This is a must-have > > of Ubuntu One. If one thing is not convinient and intuitive to do, > > users will give up your products. > > > > Cheers, > > Forrest > > > > Forrest Sheng Bao, BSEE, Graduate Student > > Dept. of Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University > > http://narnia.cs.ttu.edu > > Sent from Lubbock, TX, United States > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntuone-users> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntuone-users> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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