Re: [Flickrfs-users] Usage survey

[Eirik H. <eir...@gm...>]

Hi,

1) Are you currently successfully using flickrfs? If so,
what version?

2) What OS/distribution and version are you running or trying to run
it on?

I was not successful under Zenwalk with python 2.5, flickrfs cvs (also
tried 1.3.9) and python-fuse 0.2 (can't find 0.1 anywhere). The mount
folder couldn't be read at all by the system, it was just some
undefined file, but the log from flickrfs didn't report any errors,
said it created sets and so on. ls -l would output something like:

?????? user user  ?? ? ? ???? ??  myFlickr

Also, there's no /usr/bin/www-browser-x or what it's called under
Zenwalk, so I had to manually change the config file.

I then switched to Fluxbuntu where it worked nearly as expected from
the documentation with only one little exception: fusermount was not
in /usr/bin but in /bin, so I just changed the chmod commands. In case
flickrfs used fusermount itself, I also made a symbolic link to
/bin/fusermount from /usr/bin, but don't know if that was needed.

3) How did you install the package (distribution-specific package
manager, or by hand)?

Under Zenwalk only python was installed before I started. Used the
package manager to install fuse, but needed to install the python
bindings as described.

Under fluxbuntu everything was installed with apt-get, except flickrfs
which I got from cvs.

4) What version of python are you using?

2.5

5) What version of Fuse are you using?

Don't know right now, not near that computer atm.

6) What version of fuse-python are you using?

0.2 on Zenwalk
0.2-pre3 on Fluxbuntu

7) Would you be willing to test CVS versions of the code for me?

Sure, but I haven't decided if I want to go back to Zenwalk to test
this any further. We'll see :) I really liked Zenwalk, though. Maybe
fuse-python 0.2 VS 0.2-pre3 was causing the problems...

Anyway, I'm using flickrfs to get photos to a digital photo frame I've
made out of my mum's old laptop (I got her a new one a couple of weeks
ago). I'm currently living in another city here in Norway then she is,
and come autumn I'll be going to South America for maybe half a year.
So what I'm looking to do is to give her back the finished photo frame
for her birthday next month, so I can show her always updated pictures
from what I see in my every day life, wherever I am in the world.

Thanks a lot to flickrfs for making this come true, when I found it
(after lots and lots of googling for a way to do what I wanted) I
started dancing around my living room in joy. flickrfs was just too
good to be for real, I thought it was all a prank when I noticed it in
the search results :) But it was not, and after I got it running I
just pointed xscreensaver's GLslideshow to my /home/foo/flickr/stream
and there it was!

Last thing I want to do is to sync the flickr stream to a local folder
so that the slideshow won't stop in case the connection is lost for
some reason. If anyone has done anything similar or have a brilliant
idea on the best way to do it, let me know.

- eddan