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37 pointsJacalz17 comments

I think it might be worth mentioning that I am planning on adding mobile support pretty soon. Some experimental work has already started on the mobile branch: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/tree/mobile.

I thought it was some sort of GUI library.

> Cross-platform graphical user interface for easy encrypted sharing of files, folders, and text between devices.

...in Go using Fyne (as noted in another comment)

[0] https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

The GUI looks great! Awesome that it is cross platform.

Does wormhole do any hole punching yet? Looks like https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/6 is still open. I think if that issues gets tackled this would be a pretty amazing tool.

Thanks. I don't think it does that yet, no. I'd recommend you to check out https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william for the implementation that I am using.

You can use https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole if you want P2P file transfer.

It only has a CLI tool right now for desktops. It works in the browser though, so that is great for users looking for a GUI!

It is literally using the same wormhole-william backend that I am using for wormhole-gui. I don't quite see how that would be any different. Interestingly enough, I have actually never gotten that one to work :)

So this technology shares files on a local network? Isn't that a very solved problem? How is this different?

Sorry I'm very dumb here.

I don't think it's limited to a local network. I believe you can copy files anywhere. See https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

The GUI people then need to fix their first sentence "Wormhole-gui is a cross-platform graphical interface for magic-wormhole that lets you easily share files, folders and text between computers on the local network."

Or am I confused again?

Good point. I might have to update that. I have never actually tried transferring between two networks and did not want to advertise i in case it didn't work.

It does indeed work outside of the local network. I have updated the documentation.

>Isn't that a very solved problem?

Not in my experience. Most solutions I've found tended to be more work/brittle than just emailing the file to myself, which is a sad statement about ad hoc file sharing.

Other solutions like $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer or spinning up an ftp server work okay too but sometimes you run into NAT problems if you're traversing e.g. residential home networks.

Magic wormhole is simply the best way to get files between arbitrary points A and B, irrespective of operating systems or NATs and firewalls in between. I've never had it not work.

Nice to see a real world app using Fyne. Been following the Go GUI landscape for a while, hoping to see it keep growing.

It seems, that you can't configure Fyne's font rendering. On Linux systems, it looks quite bad.

You should be able to just start it with FYNE_FONT= environment variable and set a custom font that way.

I mean font hinting, the fonts look very blurry.

Okay. Might be good to open an issue for that on https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne. I personally use Linux as my main development platform and cannot reproduce it.

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