Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name : transporter Version : 1.3.3 Upstream Author : bleak_grey <bleakg...@gmail.com> URL : https://github.com/bleakgrey/Transporter License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Vala Description : GUI magic-wormhole client that makes file transfer between computers a breeze
Transporter is a simple GUI for magic-wormhole. It supports drag and drop. \/ the following is copy+pasted+trivial edit from magic-wormhole's d/control: . Magic Wormhole makes it possible to very easily transfer short pieces of text or arbitrary-sized files or directories from one computer to another. . The two endpoints are identified by using identical "wormhole codes": in general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine. The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed. Wormhole codes are single-use and do not need to be memorized. -- I assume that this GUI drops support for sending output through a pipe into wormhole. This package is a useful inclusion to Debian because it makes Magic Wormhole accessible to users who are not comfortable using the command line; this lowers the barrier to entry to file-transfers that avoid corporate data-mining such as Dropbox, Google Drive, unencrypted email, etc. I learned of its existence in the following article: https://medium.com/elementaryos/appcenter-spotlight-transporter-7c9db2472f37 Given that ElementaryOS has a pay-what-you-want Appstore model, and the upstream developer primarily targeted this platform, I believe they would appreciate it if their software was packaged with upstream/metadata containing a "Donation: $URL" field. CCing the magic-wormhole maintainer and GNOME team, who seem like the people who would be most interested in packaging this. 'wish I had learned of it months ago so that it could have been part of Buster! Cheers, Nicholas