Any thoughts or idea’s about this? Just wondering how it may affect snapper if at all? Anyone download or install it from KDE? I got this info from Phoronix and was wondering if anyone has looked into it.
Rich ![]()
Any thoughts or idea’s about this? Just wondering how it may affect snapper if at all? Anyone download or install it from KDE? I got this info from Phoronix and was wondering if anyone has looked into it.
Rich ![]()
Checked out the Arch package and also on the latest KDE-Linux, but I couldn’t find it working (showing up in Dolphin?). If someone has a working experience I would be interested to know too.
I think overall it’s a very good idea. The GUI tools I know for browsing individual files in snapshots are pretty lacking. It doesn’t have to be as flashy as Apple’s Time Machine, but come on, that was two decades ago.
From my understanding it shouldn’t affect snapper at all, since it’s just a passive browsing tool.
I am sceptical. KDE has tendency to do stuff in strange way dependant on their huge framework.
Probably will work ok in KDE Linux ![]()
It seems the kio-snapshot integrates into dolphin and other applications letting you see / load older versions of a file. A German article I found says you can right-click on a file and then choose to look at older snapshot versions. So it will not take or manage snapshots (that still is snapper territory). When I understood them correctly, KDE Linux will be creating subvolumes for each user and might be enabling btrfs snapshots on user space by default. Seems handy, if you use snapshots on your home directories, I guess.
Here is the article, but it is German, so you might need a translation tool: https://linuxnews.de/kde-kio-snapshot-bringt-btrfs-snapshots-in-den-dateimanager/