Cross platform Ubuntu One! Need client for Win (Mac and other Linux distributions).

First Off, I am just a user, not a developer of Ubuntu One.

From what I can see, this is largely python based. In theory, this can run on Windows ( Euch! ) Mac and other Distros. I will try to run this first in Debian W/ GNOME ( If nothing else can run this, it will be Debian ). If this looks promising ( and I think it should ) it should be portable across the other distros with light hacking.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:44:32PM -0000, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> First Off, I am just a user, not a developer of Ubuntu One.
>
> >From what I can see, this is largely python based. In theory, this can
> run on Windows ( Euch! ) Mac and other Distros. I will try to run this
> first in Debian W/ GNOME ( If nothing else can run this, it will be
> Debian ). If this looks promising ( and I think it should ) it should be
> portable across the other distros with light hacking.
>

yes. For running on things other than gnome, the only blocker is the
gnome keyring (there isn't yet a cross-desktop keychain thing).

For running on legacy operating systems you'd need to replace the
inotify bits with the equivalent on the operating system of
choice.

Note that, as the needed pieces are being freed as open source, *anybody* could create clients for KDE, Windows, Mac, VMS, or whatever...

Also, we do have the Web interface, which can be used to download/upload files with any OS that has javascript support in a webbrowser.

I currently use an iMac with MacOS X as a desktop at home, and use an (imposed) windows at my new work.
Since then, i left my ubuntu laptop in my bag, and rarely use it...

Nevertheless, i'm an open source "fan" and, i would be grateful to help cannonical contributing as a "client" of ubuntuOne. But obviously that required that i could use it.

Being currently working as an software analyst and java developer, and just finished my graduation, i'm really available to try to figure out some kind of client. This could simply autenticate an mac or an windows box, and synchronize a predefined folder...
(basically, i'm thinking: "hey, open-source is 'nothing' if your not available to contribute!").

Unfortunately, i'm used to develop in a more "high level", and neither participated in some kind of "open source project", so this task seams more than i can afford....

Is there anyone out there available for some help and some guidance?
I couldn't spend more than 2 hours a week working on this... But it's better than nothing....

Bruno, thanks for your offer to help. Stop by #ubuntuone on Freenode IRC or contact us on the mailing list https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users/ and we'll help you get started contributing to the project.

It can be used to access your documents from Windows, which is all I care about, as I use Ubuntu on 5 computers and only one Windows machine by force at work (although I have snuck Ubuntu on to one Windows machine at work too- hee hee- don't tell the IT folks).

Have never used drop box, usually use gdocs in order to access all my docs from anywhere, but there are work forms that don't translate there. I really like UbuntuOne.

So that was just to say that although you may not be able to place docs, etc. into UbuntuOne from a Windows machine, you can definitely access and open them from one by logging into your account.

This is really a question. Why does it not work on mac or windows?

Ubuntu One could provide a WebDAV file share, it's slower than having your files locally but this can provide an easy way of integration with Windows, authentication included (use Https + basic authentication)

Ludovic - For progress on WebDAV support (current in the wishlist), follow bug #396725.

Need a windows and mac os x client.

I agree with Luidovic that a WebDAV interface would help for cross-OS integration, but if you get to have a large amount of data (which 10GB is) you surely want an automatic synchronization -> So I would also vote for a windows sync client.

This is both a question and a wishlist item so for some launchpad functions to work correctly it needs to be a bug.

See also Bug #601218 (winbuntuone) which has been accepted and is being worked on.

Note that according to the Squeeze (next version of Debian) Release goals http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/Python2.6 , Python 2.6 is to be the standard.

See also Bug #412424 (specific to Debian so I think it should remain its own separate bug instead of being marked as a duplicate.

See also Bug #385696, Ubuntu One for Mac OS X

There is a beta coming soon.

(for MS Windows).

Any progress in a client for other Linux distributions?

@RobinJ the client is written, and has nothing ubuntu-specific in it. It's not packaged for some distros because we don't have the expertise to do it. However, we are happy to help anyone trying to package for any distro, and make any needed changes, within reason.

I use Ubuntu on my personal computers. But at my work, I have no choice but CentOS. I am eagerly waiting for someone who can package U1 client for CentOS.

A beta is available at https://one.ubuntu.com/downloads/mac/ for Mac OS X 10.6 and higher.

The Mac OS X client is now official. Please see http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/12/19/official-mac-os-x-client-for-ubuntu-one/ for more information. Thanks.