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FilenCloudDienste / filen-drive-legacy

Web drive for filen.io
https://drive.filen.io
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Release as a desktop app #78

Closed trymeouteh closed 1 year ago

trymeouteh commented 1 year ago

Filen Desktop is useful for file syncing. This is good for browsing the files in the cloud and uploading/downloading files, and renaming and deleting files.

Using the web client on the websites is less secure than using a desktop app.

Please release this as a desktop app. Therefore no need to have to use the web client.

DanielProg39 commented 1 year ago

As for me, it's better to implement virtual drive mounting, which is already on the roadmap

trymeouteh commented 1 year ago

As for me, it's better to implement virtual drive mounting, which is already on the roadmap

How do you upload files to a virtual mounted drive in the file explorer. Plus there are so many different files explorers out especially on Linux.

DanielProg39 commented 1 year ago

It's pretty easy: you simply move or copy your file to remote location, just like it's a hard drive in your computer. Pretty much every file explorer supports this, so there's no problem.

trymeouteh commented 1 year ago

Not against there being virtual drive mounting. However a FIlen Drive client would be more secure since your cloud storage is no mounted in your file system. And no need to support every single file manager out there. On linux there are several file managers out there, which is quite a bit of file managers to support. Filen Drive will be one codebase that supports Windows, macOS and all Linux distros if the linux app is released as an AppImage or Flatpak.

DanielProg39 commented 1 year ago

You got it wrong. There's no need to create a program for each file manager to support the Filen Drive. Every file manager already has different ways to access remote storage: FTP, NFS, Samba, SSH, WebDAV... These are standards that are supported everywhere, so if you tell the system to connect to certain WebDAV instance, or mount any cloud storage using Rclone, any file manager will automatically recognize and show it.

trymeouteh commented 1 year ago

But Filen is E2EE, wouldnt these protocols not work since they are not designed for E2EE? And there is still a security issue by mounting your cloud storage to your file system. I am not against a file system mounting feature since many would like this. But a secure file manager app like Filen Drive as a desktop client will be useful also for certain use cases.

DanielProg39 commented 1 year ago

Well, that's true, but if it's on their roadmap, it might be possible. I'm not sure how they'd do it with WebDAV, but with Rclone it's basically possible, and Mega is a good example. I agree about the security concerns. And the idea of a desktop client is not bad. It would be great to build it on top of the existing Filen desktop application, as you can already see your cloud file system when you select a folder to sync or enable selective sync, and it would be a great replacement for the "open website" button.

Dwynr commented 1 year ago

We are looking to combine the web drive and desktop interfaces in the future. Drive mounting is also still on the roadmap (1st priority).

(closing for now, progress can be observed in a separate repo or our desktop client repo in the near future)