SparkleShare

[Giles Orr]

On 10 February 2012 13:04, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Interesting point for anyone who's considering trying it: the client
>> is a big fat install including Mono and some of Gnome (clearly you are
>> expected by the developer(s?) to have ALL of Gnome), but the server is
>> pure Git.  Which also means A) revision control, and B) easy recovery
>> of your data should the client go pear-shaped for some reason.
>
> The code base is written in Mono, so the Mono involvement should come
> as not too much of a surprise.  It amounts to a "slightly more
> specified environment than Java," to my mind, with all that's
> potentially good and bad about that.
>
> The use of SCM underneath is a good thing; I like the way you're
> thinking about that.
>
>> As a follow-up to my previous message, I've emailed the developer
>> about accessing the configuration window when you're not a Gnome user.
>>  No response yet, but it's only been about 12 hours.
>
> https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/issues/572
>
> From that, I have been able to infer that you need some X client that
> can serve as a "notification area."
>
> I observe, in searching for that, that the Ubuntu folk have decided
> that the Notification Area isn't a good thing, and intend its removal.
>  <http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/>  I tend to
> agree with the reasoning that I see, and SparkleShare seems consistent
> as a case of something that isn't properly a "notification" that is
> getting stowed in the Notification Area because it seemed like a
> convenient idea at the time.
>
> FYI, if I install gnome-panel (which draws in something of a "cast of
> dozens" of additional packages, on Debian), and run it, a sliver of
> screen gets stolen from Stumpwm, an icon for SparkleShare appears, and
> I can indeed take the additional steps to add a "Hosted Project."  I
> set up access to one of my repos on GitHub, which seems like a
> reasonably harmless thing to add, initially.  SparkleShare seems
> unlikely to trash the repo, and that's an eminently repairable action.
>
> Adding the project works.  What doesn't work quite so much is the
> following step of getting a "link code" from the "SparkleShare
> Dashboard," which doesn't appear to have a place for me to link to.
>
> I think I'll leave that for now; if someone else takes interest to
> take it another step down the road, that's great.
>
> The interesting bit of outcome is that I feel OK, for now, about
> adding the sliver of gnome-panel to my screen.  That's playing OK with
> stumpwm, not interfering in any way I can see.

I got a reply from the developer, and that was the "solution" he
offered (ie. run gnome-panel).  I've always avoided installing Gnome,
so I'm a little disappointed.  But good to hear that it (mostly)
works.

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