Hi Marc, On Monday 17 April 2006 11:51, Marc wrote: > Hi Voc, Hi everybody, > > > I've been thinking about writing anew the KDE documentation for > SynCE-KDE, > in English and in French. On the technical side, I think I'm almost ready > to begin ; at least I could modify and compile my own handbook. Great!
> However, > before going into the adventure, I would like to ask developers a general > question : do you think it is possible to improve raki's simplicity of use > ? > > Indeed, I'm not sure the current SynCE-KDE project is usable by a > typical > KDE user. Regarding my previous howto > (http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/kde/) I'm wondering if there are just > not too many technical steps for getting SynCE-KDE installed and working. > I've noted below what I think are these technical steps, along with a few > suggestions. What is your opinion about these ? I completely agree with your point of view. We have to make the installation of SynCE much simpler. I want to as all of you here on the list to think about an new and improved installation procedure. Nevertheless, i don't think that this could be realized soon. If somebody is willing to volunteer we will reach this goal sooner. > > Regards, > > Marc > > _______________________________________________________________ > DOWNLOADING : There are many modules to download and install. I guess there > are good reasons for arranging SynCE's modules this way, but is'nt it > possible, by some technical workaround, to reduce the number of modules to > download to just one ? And about the AvantGo module, is there any licensing > reason for not including it in the project ? > > INSTALLATION : Similarly, I think it could help to just have to compile and > install one project, including an automatic link with the AvantGo > synchroniser. > > CONFIGURATION : Among the technical steps required to get SynCE-KDE > working, I've noted the following > 1) Configuration of the firewall. Do you think any automatic configuration > is possible ? Hm, I am not a firewall-expert. So we need an expert to work in this field. > 2) Automatic connection using udev: can we envision that the installation > script takes care of installing some udev script ? Also, what is the > current level or reliability of that script ? (note : the very simple > script described at > http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/kde/synce-kde-basic-configuration.php, > works well for me, except I if deplug and plug again the PDA before raki > notice that it is gone...) This should be rather easy to achieve. The very simple script also works reliable for me too. We only have to check if they are working on almost all distributions. > 3) Sudo rules for iptables. I think this is the typical step that can be > out of reach for some users. Maybe Raki could ask directly for root > priviledges for iptables, using for example kdesu ? Good idea! > 4) By the way, to get the internet connection working for the device, it is > currently needed to tell by hand the nameserver to synce-serial-config. Is > there any way for synce-serial to find it automatically ? This could avoid > some more configuration work, for example, in order to get the PDA internet > connection for every internet profile, I had to add the > file /etc/ppp/peers/synce-device to my internet profiles manager. Hm, the nameserver can be determined for example from the /etc/resolv.conf file. But this didn't work under all circumstances. For example for a dial-up connection the resolv.conf file is only valid during an active connection... > 5) See also : enabling the IP-forwarding > > SUGGESTIONS : > 1) Among the synchronisation modules proposed by Raki, I've only came to > use 4 of them (contacts, agenda, tasks, AvantGo). Are the others > implemented ? :-) There are not more yet. > If it is not the case, wouldn't it be better that the > unusable modules do not appear ? Yes, I agree! I will see what i can do. > 2) The module "file" makes me think of KFS, a file synchroniser program > that can use the rapip protocol to synchronise file systems between the pda > and the desktop. Should a short module be developed to exploit this > functionality ? No, "file" is not synchronized by use or the rapi protocol. It is a "real" synchronization type which is synced via librra. An synchronizer which syncs this type should not be that hard to implement ... if someone will volunteer i will help! Marc, thank you for your ideas i hope we can implement most of them soon. regards voc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Synce-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
