Sync In : Your data belongs to you

[timconsidine]

Oh, the Sync-in desktop client is excellent.
You can download from inside the running app.
Go to bottom left of screen, click the person avatar, click Applications in the panel which appears.

I don't use Windows, so this is untested, but the Mac client is excellent, so I hope/expect the Windows one to be so also. Volunteers needed to test it !

Reminder : if accessing your installation through a browser on a mobile device, set the browser to request the Desktop site (better UI performance).

[timconsidine]

Darn! Just realised I haven't tested email integration, although it is packaged. I don't use this kind of feature, but will try to test.

[Neiluj]

Hi @timconsidine - in passing, just wanted to thank you for your tenacity and willingness to get this packaged.
much appreciated.

[timconsidine]

@Neiluj thank you.
I sure hope it can be useful to others, but of course I’m scratching my own itch as well.
Looking forward to closing down Nextcloud and being independent of Seafile, which I like and use heavily, but somehow causes me some dependency concerns.

[robi]

@timconsidine the UI suggests there is a chat function just underneath the notifications bell on the right, but it doesn't look functional.

MacOS Client looks exactly like the web interface, so what's the benefit?

[timconsidine]

@robi good questions

The right panel changes a little depending on what main panel is displayed.
The 'chat' type icon is more of a comments function, allowing users to add a comment to a file for their own reference later, or to alert co-workers to some info.
It might not seem functional because a file needs to be selected in the central pane, as a comment is related to a specific file.

About the client, yes, it's very similar to the web UI. I think this is good, but can raise the question you did.
The specific features of the client over the web UI (apart from just a personal preference of a local client vs a web window amongst 50 other open web windows) are :

• synchronisation : the local client allows you to set a link (one-way or bi-directional) between a folder on the local computer and the app's server-side storage
• the local client allows you to have multiple Sync-in sites live and quickly switch between them (business vs personal ?)

[robi]

@timconsidine thanks for the screen shots, however I didn't see you open the chat icon as mentioned.

I happened to create a second user in addition to the admin and could see each in that side window. There were no actions possible from it.

Also I noticed that the client hijacked my command button away from the Brave browser I am typing this on. I use it command-<- to navigate back in the forum, and strangely it only navigated back in the sync-in client, even though it didn't have window focus! Insane.

[timconsidine]

Yes, I am agreeing there is no chat.

I'm not meeting that command button issue, but maybe I don't have the same setup.

[robi]

@timconsidine that button seems to be a list of tasks, instead of a chat.

Relaunching the app still steals my command button, so off it goes ;-/

[p44]

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