[HN Gopher] Wormhole-GUI 2.2
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Wormhole-GUI 2.2
Author : Jacalz
Score : 33 points
Date : 2021-03-15 13:31 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| Jacalz wrote:
| I think it might be worth mentioning that I am planning on adding
| mobile support pretty soon. Some experimental work has already
| started on the mobile branch: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-
| gui/tree/mobile.
| karmakaze wrote:
| I thought it was some sort of GUI library.
|
| > Cross-platform graphical user interface for easy encrypted
| sharing of files, folders, and text between devices.
|
| ...in Go using Fyne (as noted in another comment)
|
| [0] https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne
| jalude wrote:
| The GUI looks great! Awesome that it is cross platform.
|
| Does wormhole do any hole punching yet? Looks like
| https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/6 is
| still open. I think if that issues gets tackled this would be a
| pretty amazing tool.
| Sean-Der wrote:
| You can use https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole if you want
| P2P file transfer.
|
| It only has a CLI tool right now for desktops. It works in the
| browser though, so that is great for users looking for a GUI!
| Jacalz wrote:
| It is literally using the same wormhole-william backend that
| I am using for wormhole-gui. I don't quite see how that would
| be any different. Interestingly enough, I have actually never
| gotten that one to work :)
| Jacalz wrote:
| Thanks. I don't think it does that yet, no. I'd recommend you
| to check out https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william for
| the implementation that I am using.
| jonpalmisc wrote:
| Nice to see a real world app using Fyne. Been following the Go
| GUI landscape for a while, hoping to see it keep growing.
| kristopolous wrote:
| So this technology shares files on a local network? Isn't that a
| very solved problem? How is this different?
|
| Sorry I'm very dumb here.
| na85 wrote:
| >Isn't that a very solved problem?
|
| Not in my experience. Most solutions I've found tended to be
| more work/brittle than just emailing the file to myself, which
| is a sad statement about ad hoc file sharing.
|
| Other solutions like $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer or spinning
| up an ftp server work okay too but sometimes you run into NAT
| problems if you're traversing e.g. residential home networks.
|
| Magic wormhole is simply the best way to get files between
| arbitrary points A and B, irrespective of operating systems or
| NATs and firewalls in between. I've never had it not work.
| hackeraccount wrote:
| I don't think it's limited to a local network. I believe you
| can copy files anywhere. See https://github.com/magic-
| wormhole/magic-wormhole
| kristopolous wrote:
| The GUI people then need to fix their first sentence
| "Wormhole-gui is a cross-platform graphical interface for
| magic-wormhole that lets you easily share files, folders and
| text between computers on the local network."
|
| Or am I confused again?
| Jacalz wrote:
| It does indeed work outside of the local network. I have
| updated the documentation.
| Jacalz wrote:
| Good point. I might have to update that. I have never
| actually tried transferring between two networks and did
| not want to advertise i in case it didn't work.
| slezyr wrote:
| It seems, that you can't configure Fyne's font rendering. On
| Linux systems, it looks quite bad.
| Jacalz wrote:
| You should be able to just start it with FYNE_FONT= environment
| variable and set a custom font that way.
| slezyr wrote:
| I mean font hinting, the fonts look very blurry.
| Jacalz wrote:
| Okay. Might be good to open an issue for that on
| https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne. I personally use Linux as
| my main development platform and cannot reproduce it.
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