According to Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, I just thought about this and the idea that someone may be > using an application from one environment, in another. I agree somewhat. > But sadly, since nobody can agree on an IPC method, this sucks.
Am I mistaken or has this been discussed on the xdg mailing list ? > It might > be a good idea to have the daemon that accesses the device just be > totally independent, and just have higher-level backends that talk to > that daemon via some sockets or something, while applications can use a > higher level interface that integrates properly with the environment > that they are written for. That's it. > > The idea is to be able to remote-sync bookmarks beetween computer. For > > example sync office PC bookmarks with home PC. > > Yes. I got that. I'm saying we already have enough stuff in place to be > able to do that. Yeah, almost. > You can already do this with gnome-vfs. It has support for webdav and > the favorites:// in gnome is just a vfolder that gnome-vfs reads from. > So, assuming one is authenticated properly, you can write bookmarks to > a webdav store. You can set up any other machine to support reading the > list of bookmarks from the public area of that webdav store. In fact, > I've done this with the ssh and http methods. :) iSync is getting as little bit smarter. I did not play with Safari (Apple's web browser) bookmark syncing, but I did it with AddressBook. I had addresses modified on my laptop (main machine), on my destkop (secondary machine), and got both merged/synced together with .Mac to both machines, and then synced with the Ericsson T68 I got for testings[*]. So I really talk about syncing a list of records, not just remote copy.... Hub -- AbiWord maintainer - Lille, France http://www.figuiere.net/hub/ GPG fingerprint: 6C44 DB3E 0BF3 EAF5 B433 239A 5FEE 05E6 A56E 15A3 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Multisync-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/multisync-devel
