Bonsai Is A New Effort For GNOME-Focused Multi-Device Cloud/Synchronization

[starshipeleven]

starshipeleven DE specific features is not ideal but not a problem as long as it is GNOME.

Developers of non-GNOME projects have different beliefs, which is why I said this isn't going to fly much outside of GNOME-developed applications.

[rmoog]

LMFAO Gnome wants to make Bonsai Buddy

[starshipeleven]

I can't see where it requires anything other than GTK/GDK?

from the blog
But to build this I need a few fundamental layers to build applications atop. I’ll need access to files using all the GIO file APIs we love (GFile, GFileEnumerator, GIOStream, etc).

That thing is https://developer.gnome.org/platform...ch-gio.html.en and is literally GNOME's equivalent of KDE's KIO https://community.kde.org/KIO

Yes that is a DE-specific thing and not at all a toolkit thing.

[starshipeleven]

unapproved post for Britoid above this one

[skierpage]

Michael, your title is misleading, Bonsai is not "Multi-Device Cloud/Synchronization." From Christian's post: "I want access to my files and application data on all my computing devices but I don’t want to store that data on other people’s computers." No cloud.

Seems a nice idea. I want to push some files between devices while keeping other key files completely in sync. But I don't want to keep them on Google Drive

[Iolaum]

Can anyone explain what's the intended difference between bonsai and having a nextcloud server to sync your files?

Shameless plug. I use and have contributed minor patches to the nextcloudpi project (it s a selfhosted solution for nextcloud server on a raspberry pi).

[Britoid]

from the blog
But to build this I need a few fundamental layers to build applications atop. I’ll need access to files using all the GIO file APIs we love (GFile, GFileEnumerator, GIOStream, etc).

That thing is https://developer.gnome.org/platform...ch-gio.html.en and is literally GNOME's equivalent of KDE's KIO https://community.kde.org/KIO

Yes that is a DE-specific thing and not at all a toolkit thing.

But it's bundled with GLib and so should work fine under other DEs.

The only thing that I don't think would work is Gvfs.

[Vistaus]

from the blog
But to build this I need a few fundamental layers to build applications atop. I’ll need access to files using all the GIO file APIs we love (GFile, GFileEnumerator, GIOStream, etc).

That thing is https://developer.gnome.org/platform...ch-gio.html.en and is literally GNOME's equivalent of KDE's KIO https://community.kde.org/KIO

Yes that is a DE-specific thing and not at all a toolkit thing.

Besides: I don't see why it would be dependent on a toolkit anyway. On e.g. Android you can share and sync stuff no matter if the app is using Qt, Flutter or whatever other toolkit. So relying on a toolkit isn't necessary at all.

[Vistaus]

Iolaum Nextcloud got some exotic dependencies right?

Bonsai does too. I use Qt desktops only so for me GIO (which Bonsai requires) is exotic.

[Candy]

Vistaus Yeah. So cooperation was never really an option.

Well they do it like Grant Cardone. You don't have competition or cooperations, you dominate with omnipresence as your own.