Re: Tarsnap GUI for the desktop

[Shinnok <admin@shinnok.com>]

> On Jun 11, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Gour <gour@atmarama.net> wrote:
> 
> Shinnok <admin@shinnok.com> writes:
> 
>> To conclude, if you're a lazy desktop user like me, you're a perfect fit,
>> be an early adopter and start using it now so we can get it further. :-)
> 
> I've tried it on my new Free/PC-BSD install and it works nicely!!

Good to hear this.

> 
>> I do advise you to create a new key for this desktop session, it's
>> generally best practice and a safe-guard given that the application is
>> still in beta.
> 
> I'm still very light Tarsnap user, but plan to put it into serious usage.
> 
> Tarsnap-gui recognized my 'root' key, but I see that the account's credit is
> not correct, it shows zero? Is it used for something else?
> 

If you mouse over the credit value you'll see "Not implemented yet". Same goes for the Account Status entry. Arguably I should have removed them before releasing, but I kept them there as a reminder for me, like I could ever forget to implement them. ;-)

On a side note,

I forgot to mention two strong points for the application in the announcement e-mail:

1. If it's not obvious already, the application has a nice Setup Wizard to help one get started really quickly on a fresh system/desktop/account. It helps with finding the tarsnap CLI, generate new or use existing keys, create a new tarsnap-cache, etc.

2. Backup create and delete operations are queued. So one can simply do a batch of actions in a single go and let the application handle them on a first-in first-out fashion unattended.

These two are important in my opinion, since they add extra reasons for the utility of the application on the desktop.

Regards,
Shinnok