Sync files with Git

SparkleShare is a Free and Open Source collaboration app. It allows people who are not software developers or otherwise technical (designers, lawyers, students, academics, etc.) to work together and share files in projects that use the Git version control system.

SparkleShare provides an automatic sync algorithm and a friendly user interface to review changes and restore files from history.

What happened?

SparkleShare has been around since 2010. I guess that makes it an “old” project now… Since then, the Mono/C# community active around that time has all but disbanded. The platform underneath slowly started to rot.

Eventually the app had to be removed from Flathub, also due to my own maintainer burnout. Providing maintenance and support next to a full-time job proved too much.

But that’s no longer an issue.

Now I have an opportunity to rebuild and address long-standing issues and feature requests. I have renewed energy to bring back the project better than ever!

The work

The funding proposal is to finish porting to Rust, bring SparkleShare in line with modern security and privacy practices, and design a fresh user interface informed by years worth of community feedback.

The goal is to get a Linux release back on Flathub. I’m planning to post frequent updates, so subscribe or follow me on GitHub or the Fediverse.

Week 28

This week's icon is for René Fouquet's project:
Stencil: "Rename batches of files"

Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the Fediverse.

Need icons?

I love designing icons and am happy to contribute them free of charge when your project is Free and Open Source. Funded by community sponsors (every little helps!).

Week 27

This week's icon is for Zach Leytus's project:
KawaiiFi: "Wi-Fi scanner and analyzer"

Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the Fediverse.

Need icons?

I love designing icons and am happy to contribute them free of charge when your project is Free and Open Source. Funded by community sponsors (every little helps!).

Week 26

This week's icon is for Sjoerd Stendahl's project:
Lockpicker: "Recover passwords from their hash"

Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the Fediverse.

Need icons?

I love designing icons and am happy to contribute them free of charge when your project is Free and Open Source. Funded by community sponsors (every little helps!).

Crosswords has been in the process of joining GNOME Circle for a while and hopefully this is another step in the right direction.

Metaphors

We narrowed down the main categories of puzzle sources to newspapers, collections, and custom. Together with unique recolourable overlays for each kind of puzzle, it creates a cozy, rich, yet scannable sidebar to easily pick the right puzzle for the moment.

Have fun puzzling!

What I’ve been up to

• Bobby has been accepted into GNOME Circle
  • I’m back as a GNOME Foundation member
• Started the weekly app icon initiative
  • 20 app icons created so far
• Good progress on the SparkleShare reboot in Rust
  • The new CLI mode is ready for testing

Happy to announce that with your help I’ve reached the first milestone of 64 monthly sponsors.

Thank you! More good stuff is coming. :)

Week 25

This week's icon is for Val Packett's project:
Demostage: "Perform live demos from a virtual desktop"

Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the Fediverse.

Need icons?

I love designing icons and am happy to contribute them free of charge when your project is Free and Open Source. Funded by community sponsors (every little helps!).

Week 24

This week's icon is for Jiří Eischmann's project:
Meshy: "Meshcore mesh network client"

Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the Fediverse.

Need icons?

I love designing icons and am happy to contribute them free of charge when your project is Free and Open Source. Funded by community sponsors (every little helps!).

Week 23

This week's icon is for whitequark's project:
ChiPass: "Store and autofill passwords"

Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the Fediverse.

Need icons?

I love designing icons and am happy to contribute them free of charge when your project is Free and Open Source. Funded by community sponsors (every little helps!).

Week 22

This week's icon is for Krafting's project:
Hex Colordle: "Find the color"

Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the Fediverse.

Need icons?

I love designing icons and am happy to contribute them free of charge when your project is Free and Open Source. Funded by community sponsors (every little helps!).