A text-based frontend for Syncthing [in-progress]
Syncthing is a great file-synchronization tool but it has a major limitation that it only has one user interface, and that is a graphical web-browser. For the ones among us spending most (or all) of our time within the terminal, starting an X11 server (or any other windowing system of your choice for that matter) just for Syncthing may not be practical.
synchronice aims to be a maturing text-based interface for Syncthing that utilizes Syncthing's REST API and doesn't require a graphical web-browser anymore. My plan for the project is to start with the most frequent interactions we have with Syncthing, slowly minimizing the need to use the web-app.
There are a few different ways to get synchronice.
If you already have Cargo installed, synchronice can be installed directly from crates.io using the below command:
cargo install synchronice
Once installed, in order to update and get the latest version, install it with --force:
cargo install synchronice --force
Uninstalling is also as easy as:
cargo uninstall synchronice
# Clone project to local
git clone https://github.com/myTerminal/synchronice.git
# Switch to project directory
cd synchronice
# Install with `make`
make install
Uninstalling would need only a single command:
make uninstall
Re-installation is also possible with:
make reinstall
synchronice will soon be available to install from your operating system's package manager.
Simply run synchronice in your terminal to start a curses based text-interface and the rest should be self-explanatory.
To learn more about usage, refer to manpage:
man synchronice
Having a dependency on cursive, synchronice also needs ncurses on the system to work. Until implemented as a part of the installation process, you might need to install it manually.