Comment 1 for bug 1739946

Hi,

I definitely think there's value in this. Which specific cloud storage
solutions are you interested in though? Quite often they have massively
differing APIs.

On Dec 24, 2017 2:00 AM, "Oded Arbel" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Some users, like me that have a very large local collection of
> wallpapers (my current collection is > 4GB). With today's small laptops
> and small hard drives, it is sometimes inconvenient to keep a local copy
> of the entire archive.
>
> It would be great if Variety could offer a remote location driver that
> can be configured with a user's credentials for their cloud storage and
> to fetch wallpapers from there as if its a Flickr-like server (i.e.
> download just the wallpaper for display). All cloud storage providers
> I'm familiar with provide an API or SDK for application to access the
> storage programmatically without synching.
>
> I'm sure any service to be implemented will suffice to provide this
> functionality, as users can just create a free account on whatever
> service is supported (even an archive as large as mine would fit on most
> services free account), though obviously supporting more than one will
> be awesome.
>
> ** Affects: variety
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> Title:
> [Wish] Add support for user's cloud storage
>
> Status in Variety:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Some users, like me that have a very large local collection of
> wallpapers (my current collection is > 4GB). With today's small
> laptops and small hard drives, it is sometimes inconvenient to keep a
> local copy of the entire archive.
>
> It would be great if Variety could offer a remote location driver that
> can be configured with a user's credentials for their cloud storage
> and to fetch wallpapers from there as if its a Flickr-like server
> (i.e. download just the wallpaper for display). All cloud storage
> providers I'm familiar with provide an API or SDK for application to
> access the storage programmatically without synching.
>
> I'm sure any service to be implemented will suffice to provide this
> functionality, as users can just create a free account on whatever
> service is supported (even an archive as large as mine would fit on
> most services free account), though obviously supporting more than one
> will be awesome.
>
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