The question is what can still be done for 5.3 and what has to wait for 5.4.

--Hannes

On 9/17/19, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> On 17.09.2019, at 19:28, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>> On 2019-09-17, at 3:08 AM, Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com>
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>>> Some to improve is FileList .
>>> In the left panel menu we should have choices to see directories as
>>> date,name,size like we have in the right panel for files
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>> Other file list related improvements might involve fixing the remote
>> directories stuff; a couple of years ago I pointed out that the
>> ServerDirectory & FTP classes weren't in good operating condition, not to
>> mention that the exemplar server was the very dead st.cs.uiuc.edu.
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>> FTP isn't really a lot of use these days but surely somebody would enjoy
>> making it sftp (or similar) capable?
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> careful,sftp is ssh-based and a different beast.
> ftps (ie, ftp over ssl/tls) is seldom used and way slower.
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> FTP is still used in a _lot_ of places…
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> Best regards
> 	-Tobias
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>> Alternatively, dump that code as useless.
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