>> I am a student looking to participate in GSoC, I saw the Sync for >> Epiphany section of http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas and >> was quite interested. For starters, do you intend to do the sync like >> Firefox and Chrome (in the browser), or to use Conduit, or something >> else? I really like the ideas behind Conduit, but when I tried a >> little while ago to do stuff with it, it didn't work for me... > > I think part of the project is to figure this out in detail, but the > way I see it we have to main options: > > - Start with something done just in the browser, like Firefox or > Chrome, possibly (but not sure yet) using the spec Mozilla wrote for > data sync (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync)
So what would the in browser sync be capable of syncing from/to? It could be directly integrated in to Mozilla's sync system? > - Try to do this globally in GNOME as a service, that perhaps at first > could only deal with the browser data. > This will for sure be harder, since you'll have to convince a bunch of > people about how to go about it, but I think long-term it is the way > to go. How does this differ from Conduit? It can already sync bookmarks (or at least thats what the gui suggests, I am yet to test it) from Firefox and Google and from and to Nautilus. Surely doing something with this framework would be far more powerful and flexible? Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list epiphany-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
