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List:       kde-active
Subject:    Re: Files-Folders-owncloud-PA5
From:       Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar () autistici ! org>
Date:       2013-10-30 20:56:15
Message-ID: 2016773.7rDOL1m0QV () localhost
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On Wednesday 30 October 2013 21:30:24 Sebastian K=FCgler wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 20:29:48 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 2013-10-29, 23:47:43, Sebastian K=FCgler wrote:
> > > That struck me as well. I've tried to fix it some time ago, but it
> > > really
> > > is not that easy technically. The synching library and owncloud itself
> > > is
> > > folder- based, changing that would need very intrusive changes to the
> > > system. I'm not in a position to do that.
> > =

> > Couldn't it work with something like:
> > - creating a temp dir
> > - symlinking or hardlinking the respective files into it
> > - sync
> > - delete links
> > - copy remaining files (new in sync)
> > - remove empty temp dir
> =

> Possibly, but would I feel really dirty about doing it? Certainly yes.
> =

> The nice thing about the sync process is that it's event-driven, you add a
> file in one of the synched locations, sync starts shortly after that. No
> polling for the local filesystem.
> =

> Also, the other way round isn't addressed by it.
> =

> If you (or anyone else) want to give it a try, be my guest... :)

As mentioned in my reply to Aaron in the "Categories" thread: We need to fi=
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a solution to make the folder and tag worlds compatible anyway, in order to=
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ready for the future when users seamlessly switch between the different Pla=
sma =

shells.
This won't be easy, but we need something, because people won't give up fol=
der =

hierarchies in the Desktop world anyway.
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