feature request: enhance the mounting experience - ideas

[goebbe]

Testing vykar 0.12.12,
Instead of restore, I prefer use vykar mount to browse/ view/ restore single files from my snapshots.

However, there are a couple of annoyances, when using vykar mount:

• on my system, port 8080 is already used by syncthing - so I frequently find myself looking for the syntax to set the address/port.
• When I use e.g. vykar-mount --address 127.0.0.1:9090, I have to manually copy/ paste the URL from the terminal to my file-browser (nemo) and replace http:// by dav:// in order to get access to the snapshots.

It would be great if

1. one could put the desired --address:port for the mount command, in the config.yaml - and vykar mount would automatically apply this mount parameter.
2. there would be a kind of hook_mount: type of thing, where I could mess / put a command to mount and open the link.
3. mounting could be integrated in the GUI - perhaps on the snapshot tab? conditional on a defined hook_mount?

On Linux Mint, for example, I would like to put the following commands in a kind of mount hook:
gio mount dav://127.0.0.1:9090 && open dav://127.0.0.1:9090
This would mount and open the repository via dav:// in one go. This would only work if I could set the adress/port.

[m3nu]

dav:// as url won't open everywhere, I believe? I may be wrong.

How about picking the next free port instead of an extra config?

[goebbe]

Picking the next free port automatically would certainly be easier to use, on the command line.
This could make it slightly harder to use a "mount and open one-liner" - but always picking the next free port
should be "reasonably predictable".

It seems that gio (mounting) and the dav:// addresses are used on GTK-environments:
Gnome (files) / Cinnamon (nemo) / Xfce (thunar) all use this type of tooling and the same syntax for accessing DAV.

Plasma (dolphin), as far as I know, uses different tools and another address convention: webdav://
I don't have experience with other Linux-Systems.
That's basically why I suggested allowing making this configurable, if required.

As a user I like good defaults. But I also like to be able to mess around, if required/ desired.

Sidenote:
On Linux, there is also davfs2, for mounting DAV via fuse:
This could work on all Linux systems, but davfs2 requires quite some setup - and an admin has to configure /etc/fstab correctly, to allow normal users to use davfs for mounting.
Therefore, davfs2 is likely not a good default.

[goebbe]

"Dolphin uses KIO (KDE Input/Output) for networking and virtual filesystems,
while GIO is part of the GLib library commonly used by GTK applications (like GNOME)." 😄

I just discovered that, on LinuxMint, in the terminal it is actually sufficient to use a simple:
open dav://127.0.0.1:9090
This automatically mounts the webDAV address via gio and opens it in the file browser.
My guess is that this would also work on Gnome and Xfce, but I don't have these installed to test.
edit: Sorry, this was wrong: the webDAV URL was still been mounted in the background.

So

• picking the next free port automatically AND
• having a possibility to run a hook/ command automatically after vykar mount.
  would certainly make a better experience.

Like this it would be easy to get a vykar setup, where vykar mount will mount and open the webDAV folder in the file-browser.