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Any change of getting this to Maemo? They even provide source here..

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The dropbox source for linux isn't quite what you think it is. Dropbox for linux consists of two parts: a server, which communicates with the dropbox website; and a client, the frontend part that you see. Only the client is open source. Without the closed source server being compiled for armel, we can't run dropbox.

Personally, I just use the web interface if I need to download files from my dropbox, or upload files to dropbox. Of course, this does depend on you having an Internet connection, slightly defeating the purpose. For now, you'll have to look elsewhere for file synchronization.

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iirc, the very concept of dropbox kinda relies on the user having access to the net...

the worst part of the linux support iirc, is that its aimed squarely at nautilus. in other words, one will have to make use of gnome (or at least its file manager) to benefit.

guess the weight of ubuntu is starting to show...

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Try GPG + GmailFS + Gmail, or SSH + Grsync + Rsync.

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The weight of Ubuntu? Redhat, Solaris and several other Linuces/Unices use GNOME, too. I think it's far more widespread than KDE which was primarily used by Europe-based distributions, e.g. SuSE (now Novell).
In the end it shouldn't be a matter of KDE vs. GNOME vs. <other>. The VFS system should be a common implementation shared by all desktop environments.

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i see one fedora variant supported (in 32 and 64 bit version), but 3 ubuntu...

as for how widespread gnome is vs kde, its hard to tell.

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box.net has a fuse implementation: boxfs . Someone want to package it?

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That's because there is only one Fedora variant, Fedora. Red Hat doesn't make variants of Fedora like Canonical does with Ubuntu.

As for GNOME vs KDE distribution, the last I heard (which was entirely unofficial, mentioned in passing on someone's podcast) was somewhere in the neighborhood of between 80%/20% or 90%/10% GNOME/KDE. But it is hard to get accurate numbers, especially for desktop Linux.

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Are there features that Dropbox offers that Boxfs does not that would be desirable? It seems that the UI offered by Dropbox may be interesting as well as the Syncing/SVN type tracking.

Box.net does offer an API so would users be interested in a Box.net client that has more of a GUI to it? I am thinking of trying to create something that would allow a nice online storage and file syncing experience on the tablets. I am just wondering if that is something the people would be interested in. Thanks for any feedback.

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Correct me if I'm wrong... I believe that boxfs only lets you get the files on your box.net account if you have an internet connection. Whereas dropbox synchronizes the files, so you have them locally AND on the web. There really isn't much of a UI offered by dropbox, they just add some stuff to the file manager to let you see if files are synchronized or not quickly.

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You are correct, boxfs allows you to mount your box.net account to a folder. Which does require an internet connection. My proposition would be to create an application that allows the user to select a folder to sync across multiple devices. This application would not require a constant internet connection, rather it would allow the user to connect to the internet and automatically or manually sync the folder to their box.net account. Thanks for the input!

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It could be possible with Conler (connection handler) and an rsync command?

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The new release of Dropbox works with thumbdrives in what I can only picture as some sort of rsync (Windows only). I could be wrong about it, but it seems that if we could mount the tablet over the net onto a Windows box we could at get sync happening.

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http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/#sshfs (the only free one I know about) + openssh on the tablets?

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SSHFS mount to do Dropbox syncing seems like an overkill to me. Why having Dropbox at all then?

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The beauty of dropbox to me is having the files available offline, then having them autosync when you do have an internet connection. So you have one folder on several computers that is available offline and syncs automatically once the device connects to the internet updating the folders on all the computers. So I guess you could use a script to detect an internet connection, then use sshfs and rsync. If someone writes that script, please let me know as I'm no programmer.

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Dropbox added voting for future features... Found maemo sync here:
https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/591/maemo-sync

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Hi all,

Dropbox just opened an API yesterday, so I've snagged a developer account, and am beginning work on a python-based Dropbox client for Maemo. There's a garage placeholder at maebox.garage.maemo.org, but it's currently empty. I do work a 9-5, but will be putting time into this over the future. Look for progress, and of course, I'm open to suggestions!.

--torrancew

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will this be usable both on maemo4 and maemo5?

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+1


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I can probably donate some time as well. Let me know where you might need help on this.

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Signing up for Diablo testing if/when you need it

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Is this going to be a "sync this folder" app, or a "access your files when you want them" app? I use dropbox (and think it is awesome) but I don't necessarily want to have full-time, online syncing of 2GB with my phone. But I would like a nice interface (other than the website) to be able to pull down the latest version of files that I keep on dropbox and use on my phone.

In any case, kudos to you for taking this on. Looking forward to seeing what you spit out.

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I would want either option... we can then tie it into shepherd to enable sync on wifi and on-demand only otherwise.

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You could also use version control systems like subversion (svn) or git for syncing, well they're vastly superior to syncing software anyways, but you'd need a script to automate them.

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Ironically, i keep a couple personal git projects on my dropbox.

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Here I have a posted a link where someone who already has a dropbox account can vote so a feature request is generated for Dropbox development.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42457&page=3

Please help voting so we can perhaps get a Maemo app for Dropbox.

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Sorry, I got pulled away for a few months with some personal matters, but am coming back to this project, and very much looking forward to the results. There is a garage project for it, I welcome any comments there.

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Check out DropN900. You might want to contribute there.

Frank

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Yep, the developer was asking whether anybody wants to help with coding.