On 4/11/08, ramsesoriginal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM, David Pottage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, April 11, 2008 3:57 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Ok, that sounds good. Is this system also supported by "mainstream" > applications? I think of the secretary who uses outlook, or maybe > thunderbird.. > Anotehr question is if this would also allow to sync other infromation > like geodata/tags, feed list (and the read/unread status of the > feeds), etc.. is there already some standard for that, or would we > have to start from scratch?
For contacts, calendar, todos, etc. there is a project called opensync which is very promising. I used it while it was named multisync, but they decided to rewrite the whole thing from scratch to make it easier to develop. It is pluginbased now. I think KDE 4 will support opensync through kitchensync/akonadi. It is still in beta, but I think a new release will be out soon. "OpenSync is a synchronization framework that is platform and distribution independent." www.opensync.org For the geodata I think the opensync developers are thinking of some sort of generel file synchronization as well, maybe using rsync as a plugin to opensync, but I'm not sure about that. Clearly, a device running openmoko must be the simplest device thinkable to develop a synchronization tool for, as one can tune bits on both sides. (I'm not saying it will be trivial though...) -MartinG _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community