Easy GNOME Nautilus GUI to synchronize data between a remote computer and a local directory

[Sebastien CELLES]

Binary package hint: gnome

Hello,

Nautilus provide a very usefull interface to mount remote directory
(for example a samba/cifs share)

But sometimes it's very usefull to have a backup of the data
(for example when you are "offline").
With Windows XP or Vista (at least Professional version) for example
you can right click on a "Network drive" to synchronize it.
I think it could be very usefull to provide a GUI for such a feature.
Unison, for example, could be used.
I'm talking about Unison (instead of rsync) because it's bidirectionnal.

Best regards

[Sebastien CELLES (s-cls)]

I forget to say that the last version of Unison now provide a GTK2 UI so a piece of code can probably be reused
Moreover an other feature can be add :
detect if user is "online" or "offline" (in fact for each share, we have to detect if this share is available or not)
It means that if a smb share can be mount, this share is considered
"online" and the computer should ask if I want to synchronize it.

On MS Win, the user can ask to synchronize
at startup or at shutdown

if a share is unavailable at startup, but become available when working on the deskop
A popup message (at bottom left) appear to ask if you want to be synchronize

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, that's not a meta-gnome2 task, please discuss it with upstream because a bug tracker isn't a good place to discuss this kind of features that might be a little bit more complex than usual ones, thanks.

[Sebastien CELLES (s-cls)]

How can I send this bug/wish report upstream ?
Do I need to open a bug report upstream
and copy/paste this ?
There is probably a better way

Moreover I don't think you should mark this as INVALID
This is a WISH.

Best regards

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

for reporting instrunctions you can have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . No there's no need to copy and paste the same one, and probably a better way is to discuss this on a mailing list first since it probably will require some more discussion on the issue, the nautilus mailing list could be a good start for it, thanks.

[Sebastien CELLES (s-cls)]

Sorry but I don't understand why you remove the bug watch to the upstream bug
Because if you proceed using that way, people don't see the ticket number of this
bug on the GNOME bugzilla !

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533585