Bug#433358: ITP: gtkrsync -- GUI front-end to display rsync status
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
* Package name : gtkrsync
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
* URL : http://hg.complete.org/gtkrsync
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Haskell
Description : GUI front-end to display rsync status
gtkrsync is a simple GUI that displays a running status display
built from rsync --progress -v. This status display includes a
per-file and overall status bar, overall estimated time to completion,
and an expandable button that shows all rsync status output.
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Unlike other GUI rsync frontends such as grsync, gtkrsync does not have
any GUI tools for configuring or invoking rsync. gtkrsync is designed
to be invoked from the command line or shell scripts, which already
specify all the needed rsync options. It is thus ideal for scripted
rsync runs that need a GUI, or for command-line users that would like a
GUI to monitor their rsync progress.
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This package provides two binaries. gtkrsync is a drop-in replacement
for rsync. It fires up the GUI and invokes rsync, passing all args to
it. When invoked this way, gtkrsync is able to detect if rsync exits
in error and alerts the user. gtkrsync can also monitor both stdout
and stderr from rsync, and displays both. The cancel button in
gtkrsync also will kill off the rsync process.
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The other binary is gtkrsyncp. This program accepts the output of
rsync --progress -v on standard input and displays it in a GUI. It
cannot detect whether rsync exited in error and cannot kill rsync when
Cancel is pressed. However, this program may be useful in some cases
when direct control of rsync is handled elsewhere.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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