Re: Epiphany and Sync (in relation to GSoC)

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Chris Baines <cbaines8 gmail com> wrote:
>> - Start with something done just in the browser, like Firefox or
>> Chrome, possibly (but not sure yet) using the spec Mozilla wrote for
>> data sync (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync)
>
> So what would the in browser sync be capable of syncing from/to? It
> could be directly integrated in to Mozilla's sync system?

Reading the page I linked to it seems Mozilla offers a free of charge
Sync server for anyone to use, so if we follow their design strictly
we might be able to use it. At the very least it seems like a sensible
option for something under the GSoC scope (since setting up our own
infrastructure would be time consuming).

>
>> - Try to do this globally in GNOME as a service, that perhaps at first
>> could only deal with the browser data.
>> This will for sure be harder, since you'll have to convince a bunch of
>> people about how to go about it, but I think long-term it is the way
>> to go.
>
> How does this differ from Conduit? It can already sync bookmarks (or
> at least thats what the gui suggests, I am yet to test it) from
> Firefox and Google and from and to Nautilus. Surely doing something
> with this framework would be far more powerful and flexible?

>From what I remember from Conduit it seems to me it would need large
changes to fit in the GNOME3 design, so it would be quite a bit of
work anyway. I'm not sure of how much from it we could reuse.

Xan