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Display names / description field for remotes. #4391

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jtagcat opened this issue Jun 26, 2020 · 7 comments
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Display names / description field for remotes. #4391

jtagcat opened this issue Jun 26, 2020 · 7 comments
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@jtagcat jtagcat commented Jun 26, 2020

What problem are you are trying to solve?

  • Have many, many remotes, with easy to type, cryptic names
  • You don't exactly remember, what all the remotes do
  • So you name everything with 30 various characters
  • but I think that's too much to type, and copy pasta isn't the fastest

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

What about 'display names'? They would only appear in rclone config and listremotes (with optional flag, bc lsremotes could be used by scripts). Other alternative for display names could be a description field.
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@ncw ncw commented Jun 26, 2020

This is a nice idea - I like the name description

To implement we probably need to ask the user for the description at the point they make the remote.

Do you want to have a go at this?
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@jtagcat jtagcat commented Jun 26, 2020

This is a nice idea - I like the name description

To implement we probably need to ask the user for the description at the point they make the remote.

I think it should be shoved under advanced (the last thing before confirming). Thoughs/do you agree?

Do you want to have a go at this?

Suuureee.. I'll assign myself, but as with the previous time, can't promise anything.
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@jtagcat jtagcat commented Oct 9, 2020

@ncw:

I think it should be shoved under advanced (the last thing before confirming). Thoughs/do you agree?

digging through the backlog I might throw this under hacktoberfest.

Talking about backlog, I did some stonks stats. Tab count (backlog, net total compared to the previous hour online) (around ¼-⅓ of the actual measure):

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@ncw ncw commented Oct 9, 2020

@jtagcat wrote

I might throw this under hacktoberfest.
Go for it!

Talking about backlog, I did some stats. Tab count (backlog, net total compared to the previous hour online) (around ¼-⅓ of the actual measure):

Nice stats! I don't know what they are measuring - can you explain more?
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@jtagcat jtagcat commented Oct 10, 2020

I made a wiki page on STG explaining it, but they disabled the wiki... I use SimpleTabGroups for my tabs, the numbers indicate tabs. I guess this could go in more detail:
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@jtagcat jtagcat commented Oct 10, 2020

..I still didn't get the answer to: I think it should be shoved under advanced (the last thing before confirming). Thoughs/do you agree?
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@ncw ncw commented Oct 13, 2020

..I still didn't get the answer to: I think it should be shoved under advanced (the last thing before confirming). Thoughs/do you agree?

That sounds reasonable :-)
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