syncthing / syncthing/syncthing-macos
More clear menubar icons for sync status, errors and activity
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- Objective-C
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Description
It would be great if the menubar icon (or within the menu at least) could indicate the sync status of my folders. This is quite common with other similar sync apps (Dropbox etc).
Currently it displays a circular arrows icon in the top right when it is doing something. Would be great to have this change to a 'tick' or something when folders are all in sync, and even better an "!" or something when they are not, or general sync errors. Or maybe some colour options. I recently found one of my folders had not synced up in several days, and it caused me quite a bit of manual fixing to get back to what it should have been.
Currently you have to 'open' and login to see the sync status (and see my other issue where i have annoying certificate issues with this).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the menubar icon and menu, then trace how sync status is obtained after opening the app and logging in. Done means the menubar or menu clearly distinguishes active syncing, fully synchronized folders, and sync errors without requiring the app window.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- objective-c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100