Re: Proposed module: conduit

["John Carr" <john carr unrouted co uk>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:21 AM, John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:24 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 00:32 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Homepage: http://www.conduit-project.org
> > svn/git/bzr/...: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/conduit/
> > Proposal on d-d-l: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-March/msg00320.html
> > License: ??? (GPLv2 or later?)
> >
> > Short description:
> > ==================
> > Conduit is a synchronization architecture for the GNOME desktop. It
> > provides an intuitive GUI for synchronizing things and a DBus interface
> > for external applications to do the same.
>
> Surely any proposed application should be much clearer about what it
> will allow users to do.
>
> What can I realistically expect to sync with what? Are we talking about
> syncing multiple desktops, or syncing information between the desktop
> and phones/PDAs.

For a good overview, written better than I could, please check out the
lifehacker article
http://lifehacker.com/398775/sync-and-back-up-your-data-with-conduit-for-linux
And also, the presentation I gave at GUADEC is pretty informative
http://files.conduit-project.org/Conduit%20-%20GUADEC%202008.pdf

>
> How easy is it to do this for any particular specific cases, such as
> syncing a Palm with a desktop PC (With Evolution, hopefully), or syncing
> the contacts on my mobile phone, or with my N810?

Palm isnt supported.

Thanks to someone i met at LRL, we should have a couple of palms to work on replacing gnome-pilot be august 15th so palm support won't be far away, but will be after the next stable release. 

Windows Mobile 2003 should be easy, and we have the hardware for testing. Will follow WM5 polishing and Palm work.
 

Windows mobile 5/6 support is OK, and getting better.
Nokia phone support (via gnome-phone-manager is being worked on ATM)
Nokia nxxx support is pretty good.

I did have a blog post from a year ago showing off PC to PC sync, but my migration to blogs.gnome.org seems to have killed the video...
 

Our strength and historical focus has been sync to online services from
GNOME apps. Our current focus is on mobile devices.

We have two SOC projects, SyncML support, and iPod support.

>
> Also, shouldn't this be integrated into particular applications?
> Shouldn't Evolution have a sync menu item, replacing it's current awful
> gnome-pilot synchronization feature.

 

Personally, I want to plug in my device and have my desktop say "hey, wanna sync this?". The next time I plug it in, i just want it to sync. If i leave it plugged in, I want things to sync in response to change events in the applications we are syncing.

John