Advanced alternative to cloud storage in Subsurface mobile

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Feb 18 07:18:50 PST 2016


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 03:13:56PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I was thinking about adding a "advanced settings" to the cloud storage
> credentials screen, were one could point the app to a local xml file, or
> a local git repo. That way one can test the app without the need to push
> data to the could storage first.
> 
> Also, the mobile app is built with libgit2 with libssh support, so
> adding support for using a alternative git url with a ssh key would be
> really nice to.
> 
> All the bits are basically already there, from the desktop app, so
> getting this working in the mobile app would as usual just be a matter
> of building a Qml ui for it.
> 
> 
> I'm currently out of a working laptop so I won't be implementing this
> anytime soon, but just floating the idea here. Anyone against?

This falls into the "I understand why you want this, but I don't want this
in the app that will be in the app store" category.

Yes, this is really useful for six people who know what they are doing.
No, this is not useful and only will cause confusion, bugs, the need for
more testing, and endless explaining to users "no, this isn't what you are
looking for" to our target audience.

/D


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