Hi,
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:09 +0000, John Carr wrote:
> Hi John
>
> > I'm working on a nice little GUI that will communicate with a running
> > sync-engine via d-bus. It's in concept stages at the moment so all
> > suggestions welcome. I am thinking it could look a little like
> > ActiveSync on steroids.... :) - providing a nice interface for both
> > partnership manipulation and OpenSync respectively to give users one
> > place to go to set up syncing. Watch this space.....
>
> Can we discuss this on IRC? Or perhaps SynCE Meet UK 07 :) I'm
> hesitant to go Conduit! Conduit! Conduit! but the things like OpenSync
> and Synce partnership manipulation sounds like it will overlap on the
> stuff i'm working on for Conduit / Ubuntu "Sync that just works"...
>
> We are in need of someone to help with the Konduit (KDE) UI for our
> dbus sync daemon, and a fresh pair of eyes to help us beat the cross
> platform bits in to shape would be great too..
>
This is probably a better idea than me trying to reinvent the wheel.
What concerns me though is just how it will impact users. It seems, at
least through talking with a colleague at work whom I managed to convert
to Linux a year ago that SynCE as it stands is a royal pig to install -
and I would have to agree with him. Not only that, but after having to
get the latest SVN releases to start it up first requires the usual
compilation and installation, then odccm to be run as root, then
sync-engine to be started as a user, then partnerships to be made, then
OpenSync to compile/install/configure before you can actually just run a
sync!
I thought that a little, simple, ActiveSync-like GUI that resides in the
system tray would make life a bit easier, if not in the install then in
the configuration phase.
Conduit is a brilliant concept and looks very good, at least from the
video. But how 'useable' in a 'dummies guide' type of way is it? Is it
straightforward to install and configure? Will it alienate kde
users? :-)
What I am really asking is how far away is Conduit from being workable
from a _user's_ perspective? If not too far, then I am definitely
interested in this route. If it is fairly distant, then perhaps we need
at least an interim solution to make SynCE palatable to the less
developer-minded user.
> If you are in theory interested i will dig out propaganda on the
> vision and such, though it is quite vast in scope so you have a blue
> pill/red pill moment first :-)
>
I can't remember which pill was which - aw hell, whichever one is
stronger than the lousy coffee they serve at my university....
In theory, yes I am interested. Let me get these sync-engine
enhancements out of the way and then we can discuss it in more detail.
Once I have committed the sync-engine stuff I have to work on a couple
of other things, but should be able to get back to SynCE stuff after
Christmas.
John.
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