Re: Applications 17.12 Beta to enter KDE:Applications

On 22/11/17 00:43, Roman Bysh wrote:
> On 21/11/17 04:20 AM, gumb wrote:
>> You just reminded me that Krename is another of the apps that provides 
>> a stumbling block for me for a full KF5 transition. The other two I rely
>> on more heavily are Komparator and Audex.
>>
>> I've already enquired on the main opensuse list about Komparator 
>> alternatives and whilst one or two apps can mimic certain functions, 
>> there's
>> just nothing that really reproduces all of its features, especially 
>> its KIO Slave integration. Sadly it looks like a long forgotten 
>> application.
>>
> You can try syncron as a replacement for kompare.
> 

Not sure if you're referring to Synkron:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/synkron/?source=navbar

Note that I'm talking about Komparator, not Kompare, quite a different 
application (though I suspect you know that and simply typed the wrong 
name, since the latter is better known). But a syncing tool isn't really 
my requirement in any case. Often I don't want to actually sync 
anything, certainly not automatically or by any predefined parameters, 
it's very much the comparison element that is useful to me, because each 
time I use the app I have different intentions. Komparator allows me to, 
for example, pull up my Symbian phone connected via USB Mass Storage in 
one pane, a directory on another machine via fish/ssh or samba in a 
second pane, then view a list of duplicate files, newer files, missing 
files, compare all files' MD5 checksums, and more. And then I can 
manually sync/copy/move any selection of those files in either direction 
between panes. A very unique and useful tool that's much overlooked 
(probably because everybody confuses it with Kompare ;-) )

My original thread about Komparator is archived here:
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2017-09/msg00328.html

Closest thing I could find was Meld, but it still lacks some features of 
Komparator. If I could run Komparator in a sandbox in future that would 
be fine, even if it were half a gigabyte in size, I don't care, although 
I don't know if a sandboxed app would allow fluid access to all the same 
KIO slaves.

gumb
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