Zynk - The rsync GUI for your desktop
Development Version only!!!
2009.09.06 - I am working on the Zynk code again. I will try to release a fully functional version on christmas 2009!
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Features
- Screenshots
- Dot Zynk files
- Status
- Feature requests
- To do
- Bugs
- Requirements
- Download
- Development
- Installation
- Weblinks
Introduction
What is Zynk? Zynk is a graphical user interface / GUI
for rsync with some special
features.
Zynk is being written in C using GTK+ and the Glade interface designer.
Features
My goal is to implement as much features as possible from the rsync command. I think everything is possible so all parameters will be implemented at some time. I will implement all functionality exactly like it is integrated in rsync to be as much compatible as possible. The interface will only show some standard options and more enhanced configuration must be done in a detailed configuration window.
Screenshots
Dot Zynk files
Zynk project files does look like the file example.zynk.
Status
You can see the development status of the project below. This status shows you how much work is done until next release. The green bar shows the work that is done and the right bar shows the percentage of work that is not done. A more detailed development status will follow... ;-)
The actual bar shows the status for the first code release.
Feature requests!
If you have some features you would like to add to Zynk, please send me mail. This project is very new and i really would like to get some information from the outside world... ;-) Please send feature requests to: you at hanez dot org
To do
- Make Zynk resizeable
- Use the Progress bar at the bottom of the program
- Display help at the status bar when moving the mouse over elements
- Enable Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear in the Edit menu
- Enable New, Save and Save As in the File menu
- Disable some buttons when syncing is in progress and otherwise disable the cancel button when nothing is in progress
- Add a GUI field for the project name and maybe a description too
- Functionality for saving settings in project files (*.zynk files)
- Commandline interface for executing .zynk profiles like this:
# zynk -f ~/zynkfiles/hanez.zynk
- Write documentation in the GNOME help format
- Translate program to other languages
Bugs
Please report bugs via mail to: you at hanez dot org
Requirements
- UNIX like operating system (Linux, BSD etc.)
- GTK+ >= 2.?
- Libxml2 >= 2.?
- libglade >= 2.?
- glib >= 2.?
- rsync >= 2.6.1 (available in your $PATH)
Files
| Filename | Type | Timestamp |
|---|---|---|
| example.zynk | 2009.02.10 02:49:06 | |
| zynk-0.0.2.tar.bz2 | application/x-bzip2 | 2009.02.10 02:49:06 |
Prebuild Zynk Packages
Development
The sources are availabla via git.
git clone git://github.com/hanez/Zynk.git
Installation
Run the following commands in your terminal:
./configure make su *enter root password* make install
Most people want to run the following configure command instead of only ./configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr
Weblinks
Comments
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Previous comments:
$Date: 2009-09-24 21:08:03 +0200 (Thu, 24 Sep 2009) $
2009.09.14 - 13:05:31 - Chris
Nice to see this is being worked on again! This looks like a really promising project that fills a real gap in GUI functionality. I eagerly await your Christmas release and will definitely put your app to good use!
Being able to save jobs as profiles (.zynk) would be really useful and also having a command line interface for setting them up to run as cron jobs. Would be useful to (optionally?) show graphical progress while these jobs run in the background and also generate reports of what has been done, maybe even as HTML reports arranged by date/searchable?
Just a few ideas and hopefully knowing your app would be greatly appreciated will make developing it a little less of a chore! Your work is appreciated.
Regards, Chris