Add Support for FTP (similar to the Dropbox support)

[piratetub]

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Hello there! I'm a new Cloud Commander user and discovered the project while looking for file managers to use with my personal server.

I noticed that rclone has already been recommended here in 2018 (#204), and that fully integrating rclone may not be feasible.

I think a good alternative would be to support FTP similar to the current Dropbox implementation. This would, in practice, enable support for all backends/protocols supported by rclone, since it can serve any of its remotes over FTP.

Hope this is worth taking a look at, A grateful new user.

[coderaiser]

That's amazing idea for a pull request :), something like qusly this can be used for this purpose. Could you please tell me, are you talking about full dropbox support which is enabled with --dropbox flag, and intend using dropbox only support on both panels?

[piratetub]

I honestly didn't realize the current Dropbox option disables support for the local filesystem.

I was thinking of local filesystem in one pane, remote in the second pane. Perhaps switching between local/remote views through a pane's context menu?

[coderaiser]

That's not possible right now :), but still a great idea

[piratetub]

I see! Even if simultaneous access is not currently possible, the FTP addition to the Dropbox scheme would still be a great addition. I can imagine spinning up 2 instances of cloudcmd for access to both local and remote files being a reasonable compromise.. :)