On 2019-02-20 20:13:33, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > 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.
Sure looks like it! > 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 Wow, that's great! It would be great if this would also be available for other platforms (iOS, OSX, Windows) as file sharing between geeks only goes so far - it is, after all, the current state of affaires with wormhole itself... Getting a GUI is sure nice but won't help our peers in the walled gardens out there... Not sure how portable Vala is anyways? > 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. I didn't know about this field, but sure why not... > CCing the magic-wormhole maintainer and GNOME team, who seem like the > people who would be most interested in packaging this. As one of the wormhole maintainers, I'm interested in seeing this exist as well! > 'wish I had learned of it months ago so that it could have been part > of Buster! We can always backport, that shouldn't be too hard... a. -- It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. - Edgar Allan Poe