On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:17 AM, John Carr <john.c...@unrouted.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Frank Niedermann <f...@thelogic.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I saw that there are many ideas for the Gnome 3.0 Desktop and >> I was wondering, if there are also plans for Desktop synchronization? >> >> Example: User Joe has a Desktop PC at home with Gnome 3.0 He has >> some pictures in his home folder from his digital camera. He taggs some >> of the pictures and has done some editing with gimp. >> >> Next day he is at school/work/somewhere with his laptop. Will he see >> the pictures in his homefolder? Will he see the tags he made on his >> Desktop PC? Will he see gimp as last used application (not yet started >> on the laptop)? >> >> I think that Desktop synchronization gets more and more important >> with the features the desktop gets, like tagging documents. Would >> be very great to have some synchronization with Gnome Desktop, >> like Apple has with the .Mac accounts. >> >> Thanks, >> Frank >> -- > > Theres lots of work going on, but i'm not sure what will be ready for GNOME > 3.0. > > I think the closest GNOME saw to .Mac was http://online.gnome.org, but > i think work on this has slowed in favour of the GNOME Shell work. > > John Stowers and friends continue to work on Conduit which is already > an accepted external dependency for GNOME apps wanting to add sync to > their part of the desktop. Work is on going for building "conduits" > between the desktop and both online services like Google and > ScheduleWorld and mobile devices. It should be in good shape for 2.28, > the main blocker is people integrating it - i have some ideas though: > > Epiphany integration. Visit a service that Conduit supports - Google, > Facebook, Box.net and in the future anything with SyncML support like > ScheduleWorld - and Epiphany asks you if you would like to set up sync > with that services. At the very least you won't have to put any > details like usernames in apart from password. Maybe if gnome-keyring > is used, even that won't be needed. (Of course, Firefox integration > would be needed for those distros that dont encourage Epiphany). > > Bluetooth pairing integration. When you pair a device you tick a sync > checkbox. And paired devices with that flag will be synced to the > configured GNOME PIM application. > > (In the future there is no reason why as i user i shouldnt be able to > pick GMail as my default PIM and Conduit would sync phones directly to > that, and tracker would index Gmail directly too). > > There is also Wizbit which is still in very early stages but is > concerned with, for desperate want of a better description, all about > your personal cloud, or mist. The end goal is to use DVCS type > technologies to replicate your data between all your devices, with > some emphasis on tracker so that metadata about last used documents > (which implies used applications) and tagging data and all the other > RDF goodness are also everywhere.
That is a pretty interesting list. Someone should write a GNOME Journal length piece about all that, how far along it all is, and how (whether?) it all fits together. Luis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
