Am 18.02.2016 um 18:41 schrieb Tim Wootton:
> On 18/02/16 15:18, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 03:13:56PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I was thinking about adding a "advanced settings" to the cloud storage
>>> credentials screen, were one could point the app to a local xml file, or
>>> a local git repo. That way one can test the app without the need to push
>>> data to the could storage first.
>>>
>>> Also, the mobile app is built with libgit2 with libssh support, so
>>> adding support for using a alternative git url with a ssh key would be
>>> really nice to.
>>>
>>> All the bits are basically already there, from the desktop app, so
>>> getting this working in the mobile app would as usual just be a matter
>>> of building a Qml ui for it.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm currently out of a working laptop so I won't be implementing this
>>> anytime soon, but just floating the idea here. Anyone against?
>> This falls into the "I understand why you want this, but I don't want this
>> in the app that will be in the app store" category.
>>
>> Yes, this is really useful for six people who know what they are doing.
> I must be one of those 6 people, this turns out to be exactly the
> feature  was waiting for. I'd like to be able to access my dives from my
> home server on my mobile (over VPN when I'm away from home). I'd
> resigned myself to the fact that the Andoid app wasn't going to be for
> me because it only worked with the one anointed data store .
> 
> Hands up, who are the other five?

although I created a cloud account recently to be able to use and test
the mobile app I would really appreciate such a feature, so anther +1

only a few more to prove dirk wrong ;)

>> No, this is not useful and only will cause confusion, bugs, the need for
>> more testing, and endless explaining to users "no, this isn't what you are
>> looking for" to our target audience.

I'm not claiming to know the target audience but there are other apps in
the store with such a functionality, like Password Store, an Android
port of pass...

/martin
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