On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 12:45 +0000, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Another conceptual problem is that the server cannot communicate well > with the user. A client might pop up rich dialogs and ask the user for > help in cases that it cannot decide automatically (but designing such > a dialog is an unsolved problem). SyncML servers (and probably other > servers, too) don't have that option and instead fall back to > heuristics which fail inevitably in some cases.
I think we'll have done something wrong if we need to ask the user to resolve their own conflicts (especially on a semi-regular basis in a process that may have started automatically in the background). I'm confident that sync is one of those things that users might request if you give them a checklist of features, but wouldn't want to deal with if they had to sort through hard-to-communicate conflict resolution dialogs like this. I think backups fall into a similar category, except they're even simpler. We all know how well most people deal with those :) Regards, -Travis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
