On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:21 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 22:21 +1200, John Stowers wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:24 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > 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. > > 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. > [snip] > > I appreciate the difficulty of doing all this, and I like that it's > being done properly via a proper framework, but it doesn't seem like it > has enough device support to be genuinely useful to many people yet.
I know everyone likes to think of themselves as a representative user, and by no means am I dismissing the importance of mobile device sync, but I personally use online services more these days. The level of mobile device sync we support well (nxxx and WM5 and iPod) correspond to the devices I own. GPM integration will likely/hopefully be done this cycle. I don't want GNOME to wait forever (again..) for the perfect sync solution, because in my experience perfect is equivalent to supporting >= some arbitrary moving threshold combination of devices and webservices. The diverse and useful range of things Conduit supports has grown to support over the last few years have seemed to validate our architectural choices. This means than any future additions to Conduit, in terms of devices we support, or bugs we fix, will propogate through the whole desktop, with no additional work on the part of application authors. > > > Our strength and historical focus has been sync to online services from > > GNOME apps. Our current focus is on mobile devices. > > So with what sites can I easily sync my data (from what desktop > applications)? The following is a partial list of non-pim sync functionality == Photos == FSpot/eye of gnome/nautilus/folder <--> * Flickr * Picasa * SmugMug * ShutterFly * Facebook * iPod Phots == Videos == totem/nautilus/folder --> * Youtube * iPod Video * nxxx == Files == * file/folder <--> file/folder * Box.net * S3 support (eta: 1 week) * Google Documents == Notes == Tomboy Notes <--> * Backpack Notes * File/Folder == Misc == * RSS feed enclosures * Desktop settings (GConf) There is also network sync functionality that allows two PCs to sync peer to peer any of the above listed data. I have not gone into the other sync permutations possible, and I am certain I have left some items out. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list