<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:08 AM, stig atle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stigatle@cryptolab.net" target="_blank">stigatle@cryptolab.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>
Welcome!</div><div style> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I just wanted to introduce myself briefly,<br>
I'm 29, work as a engineer in the oil industry, mostly programming and<br>
3d related.<br>
I do have a home page where I post about personal projects, feel free to<br>
take a look:<br>
<a href="http://stigatle.net/" target="_blank">http://stigatle.net/</a><br>
<br>
I do enjoy open source software and I came across Tahoe when I was<br>
looking into some<br>
good and secure storage that I could set up between the servers in my<br>
basement.<br>
<br>
Tahoe was easy to set up and worked very well.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Awesome. Good to hear!</div><div style> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I do however miss having a more 'friendly' software to manage files and<br>
so on, and as I understood there was none at this time? (there has been,<br>
but discontinued?).<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Do you mean the web interface and the commandline client are unsufficiently usable? I primarily use the commandline and web interfaces. I'm a happy commandline dweller so I find that sufficient.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Have you tried any of the "fuse" approaches? There are various alternatives here. In general they provide access to lafs files and directories through your operating systems standard filesystem interface. This is friendly in that it works with any application. On the other hand, there are various usage patterns of native filesystems that don't work well with lafs because of expectations about latency and various networking edge cases.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Have you tried the sftp frontend? You can use a variety of ftp clients to interact with lafs files this way.</div><div style><br></div><div style>A starting point for these alternatives is here:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><a href="https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/running.rst">https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/running.rst</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>
Oh, and one other important interface is the "backup" commandline feature which is specific for time-machine-like snapshots. (It's only a tool for creating the snapshots, browsing them is still through some other interface.)</div>
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I do use freenet a lot, so I felt at home quickly when it comes to the<br>
way the files are represented, and I did write software that interacted<br>
with freenet using it's API.<br>
<br>
this made me think that I could maybe write a cross-platform software<br>
that interacts with tahoe.<br>
I do not promise anything at this time, but It's something that I'd like<br>
to try to do, both for my own needs and for others who would like to use it.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>The web api for lafs is fairly straight-forward as a programmatic interface, especially if you are familiar with S3 or other restful storage APIs:</div><div style><br></div><div style>
<a href="https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/frontends/webapi.rst">https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/frontends/webapi.rst</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div>
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If I decide to write it - then it would be either in python or QT<br>
creator, if I decide to use python then I'd like to use PyQT (I have<br>
used QTcreator a lot in my free time and on work related projects), I<br>
have also used python a lot,but not together with pyQT.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm personally interested in browser interfaces as extensions or replacements to the standard web interface, because they can be stored and served from lafs storage itself. Don't let me stop you from a QT client, though, if that's your preferred interface!</div>
<div><br></div><div style>It's useful to do a github search for "tahoe-lafs":</div><div style><br></div><div style><a href="https://github.com/search?q=tahoe-lafs&ref=cmdform">https://github.com/search?q=tahoe-lafs&ref=cmdform</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>One item you might find interesting is this desktop indicator:</div><div style><br></div><div style><a href="https://github.com/rubiojr/tahoe-lafs-indicator">https://github.com/rubiojr/tahoe-lafs-indicator</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>I haven't used it, but if you were making a full blown desktop GUI client, it might benefit from being an extension of an existing desktop indicator, or both could benefit if they interoperate with each other.</div>
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Either way - if there's any suggestions or wishes etc, then just let me<br>
know, I have not started on anything yet, but I think I'll do so soon.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I always thought a nice interface would be like the dropbox video I saw ages ago (like 3 or so years) where there's a normal looking windows file browsing interface except each file/directory icon is augmented with transfer information right in band. From what I gather dropbox poured a lot of windows specific effort into that and they do things like using undocumented APIs they reverse engineered, so I kind of wrote that off as practical. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Also, I typically don't use gui fs interfaces. Others here might and might have better feedback.</div><div style> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Have a nice day everyone.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Nathan</div></div>