Improving the FTP client

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Manko10
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Joined: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:02 pm

Improving the FTP client

Post by Manko10 »

Hello,

again a feature request. :)
A FTP client is an invaluable feature of each webeditor but I think WeBuilder's client is a little too minimalistic. What I need is a grid view (like the detailed view of Windows Explorer) which shows information such as filesize, owner, group, filepermissions. Also helpful would be a small field which shows FTP status messages, your current message "Busy" is not very informative.
Hope, this will be included in future releases.

Greetings to you
Manko10
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davenz

Re: Improving the FTP client

Post by davenz »

While the FTP is mimalistic, I don't think it was ever intended to be a full-blown FTP client. Since most people use third-party FTP clients anyway, it would seem to be waste of man-hours developing the built-in one into anything other than what it is; a quick upload for single files or, at best, a bulk uploader for a few selected files. I find it incredibly handy with the right-click 'uploed to ftp' and use that all the time. If I want anyhting more, I use CuteFTP.

Not many html editors have fully-fledged FTP clients built in. This is because they are editors, not FTP clients. While it would be great to have a higher-level client bundled with WeBuilder, I don't think it is ever likely to happen and the built-in clients will never reach the level of some of the FTP software out there anyway.

Just my 2 cents.

Dave.
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Manko10
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Joined: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:02 pm

Re: Improving the FTP client

Post by Manko10 »

Of course, I'll never need a really full featured FTP client in WeBuilder and I have installed FileZilla as well but I think a grid view and a field for status messages would be good and helpful features (just these two).
The first one for quick checking the rights (not only file rights, also owner and group are very important) so I don't wonder if I can't upload a file because of missing permission and the second one for error messages and state of transfer. I often need these information (first of all owner and group) and don't want to start FileZilla each time just to make sure which owner a file has.
I don't know WeBuilder's source code but I assume it wouldn't be too difficult to implement those features because they're information that must be adhered in each FTP client, whether minimalistic or not.
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