On 19 April 2011 11:27, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 11:43 +0200, daniel g. siegel wrote: >> another very important point is synchronisation. together with salomon >> sickert we thought about how to solve this problem. basically we came up >> with the idea of a self-replicating backend, like couchdb. if we then >> could add support to the contact apps of other computer/devices like a >> n900 or android, we would get synchronisation and conflict management >> for free. >> >> then there is also the idea of having a webservice for the gnome >> contacts app, where you can access your contacts over the internet. >> >> we are very interested in your opinions about this! > > I don't know really. Synchronization is a tricky subject, with complex > protocols and risk for merge problems. Its almost always a source of > weird problems. I don't think we want to have synchronization as some > core part of the design. > > On the other hand, its important that there is some level of support for > synchronizing contacts with e.g. phones. So, I guess we need to think > about where it fits in.
If you start to talk about synchronisation, please talk to Patrick Ohly <patrick.o...@gmx.de>. He maintains SyncEvolution that is probably the only working PIM syncing tool that I know of, and it's totally non-trivial. Ross _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list