Ubuntu

GNOME

Status= Working

TimeVault is natively a GNOME app and was built for Ubuntu, but it should work on an standards-compliant GNOME.

KDE

Status= Working (Using GNOME Libraries)

Native KDE Client: Exists on the design board (Look below)

From http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_D-BUS_Session_Bus_with_KDM:

# test for an existing bus daemon, just to be safe
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
        # if not found, launch a new one
        eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

Note that if you have not installed GNOME, the following may affect you: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde4libs/+bug/118919

Since dbus in KDELibs does not include dbus-launch, you need to install dbus-X11. It cannot be made a dependency for the .deb since the Ubuntu-Feisty installations don't have it in the repositories.

Nautilus integration is unavailable if you are using another file manager.

I am not aware of an extensions system for Konqueror, but Snapshot Browser could be made more friendly to being used as a browser of sorts.

-> What extensions are you looking for? Editing the RMB menu has always been possible with just a .desktop file, I dunno about changing the file properties menu though. 'extensions' for konqueror are for the webbrowser functionality, like in firefox.

KDE Port

Now that TimeVault is using a dbus interface with a server/frontend type interface, it might be interesting to create a kde/qt gui or even a kioslave to navigate TimeVault in KDE.

From https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~astromme/timevault/timevault-kde4 After working a little bit on HAL support in the timevault-external branch, I have a bunch of ideas.

First of all, I want to have a Qt4/KDE4 based version of TimeVault. I will try and keep the core as Desktop Environment independent as possible, but I would like a KDE4 gui as well.

Secondly, I want TimeVault to be integrated. This means Solid, Nepomuk, all of the fun frameworks =).

Some ideas:

• TimeVault should have a kio-slave for browsing snapshots.

• Maybe TimeVault should register with Strigi/Nepomuk so that other apps can be made aware of the snapshots

• Maybe TimeVault should handle contact backups/other configuration backups via Akonadi and KConfig rather than relying on files.

• TimeVault might be able to use Solid instead/in addition to HAL to check for media and to manage where backups are stored.

• More ideas?

XFCE4.0

ArchLinux

XFCE4.0

Status= Problematic

Currently not working, there is a D-BUS problem, everything works minus the timevaultNotifier.py, which is important. Also, the timevault daemon wont start.

Fedora 7

Status -- In the works.

Packager -- Andrew Schott (andrew at harmonizedcomputing dot com)

CentOS 5

Status -- In the works.

Packager -- Andrew Schott (andrew at harmonizedcomputing dot com)

Gentoo

Status -- Working with some tweaks

Depends:

• gksu
• gnome-python
• wxglade
• nautilus-open-terminal
• notify-python
• pygobject
• pango
• pysqlite
• python-mhash (not sure)
• pygtk
• sha1
• sudo

Installation

Simply unpack the .deb so that you have usr and etc folder.

Then cp -R etc/* /etc && cp -R usr/* /usr

Config sudo:

nano /etc/sudoers

Change:

Defaults env_reset to #Defaults env_reset

Add your user:

[user] ALL=(ALL) ALL

Config dbus:

This it not very clear, but when it'll not run try it:

nano /etc/dbus-1/system.conf

Replace deny with allow, looks at the end so:

• <policy context="default">

  • <!-- Deny everything then punch holes --> <allow send_interface="*"/> <allow receive_interface="*"/> <allow own="*"/> <!-- But allow all users to connect --> <allow user="*"/> <!-- Allow anyone to talk to the message bus --> <!-- FIXME I think currently these allow rules are always implicit

    • even if they aren't in here -->

    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"/> <allow receive_sender="org.freedesktop.DBus"/> <!-- valid replies are always allowed --> <allow send_requested_reply="true"/> <allow receive_requested_reply="true"/>

  </policy>

Fix init.d:

nano /etc/init.d/timevault

• Replace . /lib/lsb/init-functions with #. /lib/lsb/init-functions

• Replace log_begin_msg "Starting TimeVault..." with #log_begin_msg "Starting TimeVault..."

• Replace log_end_msg 0 with #log_end_msg 0

• Replace log_begin_msg "Stopping TimeVault..." with #log_begin_msg "Stopping TimeVault..."

• Replace log_end_msg 0 with #log_end_msg 0

• Delete || log_end_msg 1 on line 22 and 28

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