Bug 264986

Summary: add rsync capability to drag n drop
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: timoteo.carletti
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: markg85
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: add rsyncto functionality to context menu right click

Description timoteo.carletti 2011-01-31 18:52:46 UTC
Created attachment 56700 [details]
add rsyncto functionality to context menu right click

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

It would be great to add to the 'context menu right click' or to 'drag n drop' the possibility to make a 'rsync here' in addition to 'copy here' and 'move here'.

I did it for the context menu using the attached rsyncto.desktop file put into the ServiceMenus , but it doesn't completely satisfies me, mainly because of the need for the selection of the target folder using kdialog.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:20:05 UTC
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 2 Mark 2018-03-11 17:06:05 UTC
Hi,

That's an interesting request! But i think you're limited here to whatever you can add to the services menu. Syncing between folders is just not a task for dolphin.

If you really want this _and_ want to have it in Dolphin then the best approach i can think of is by making a custom KIO slave. That slave would do syncing between 2 given folders. But no such thing exists at the moment so it will all have to be made. Your best bet is bet is probably by either getting a developer exited about this to make it or to propose it as a GSOC project.

Or just use rsync outside of Dolphin ;)

Anyhow, closing this.