Re: Applications 17.12 Beta to enter KDE:Applications

Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:19:06 +0100

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Dne středa 22. listopadu 2017 20:49:26 CET, gumb napsal(a):
> On 22/11/17 00:43, Roman Bysh wrote:
> > On 21/11/17 04:20 AM, gumb wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> 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.

I don't know Komparator, but did You try Krusader? It is already available for 
KF5. It has very nice feature of comparing directories, with a lot of options. 
Basically, it is two-panel file manager (like e.g. MC), it is very feature 
rich.

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