README.md

File uploading script for KDE

Adds an "Upload to server" entry into the context menu for files in KDE to upload a file to a server via SFTP

Installation

1. Download install.sh from the "Install" folder of this repo.

   You can either navigate to the file, click "Raw" and then save it

   OR

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Chopper1337/srvrupload_dolphin/main/Install/install.sh

2. Make it executable: chmod +x install.sh

3. Run it: ./install.sh

4. Install sshpass through your distributions package manager and SSH into your server at least once

   Example for Ubuntu:

   sudo apt install sshpass

   ssh [email protected] -> say yes to the prompt -> enter your password

The install and uninstall scripts are very simple, I'll briefly outline what they do:

• Creates a folder named srvrupload in ~/.local/share/kservices5/.

• Downloads the srvrupload.desktop and srvrupload.sh files from this repo to that location.

• Makes them executable.

Eventually I'll add this to the official KDE store thing so it's just a matter of clicking install and configuring it.

Required Configuration

Go to ~/.local/share/kservices5/srvrupload/ and open srvrupload.sh in your preferred text editor.

nano ~/.local/share/kservices5/srvrupload/srvrupload.sh

Edit the variables such that they contain the info for your server (and domain if necessary)

I have briefly described the meaning of each variable in the comments above them.

Known issues

• Anything to do with special characters in the file name. (I don't yet know how to counter anything other than spaces)

Info

Thanks to Jamesjon for his many many Dolphin Service Menus I could follow through to learn how to write this one.

Thanks to Nevalain for making a similar script in 2005 (Probably for KDE 3.4) which gave me the idea.