On Tuesday 23 September 2008 18:28:32 John Carr wrote:
> Doing IRC support for synce means you see some things a lot. This is
> one of them. People see synce-kde and synce-gnome and think, as a
> gnome, they should use synce-gnome. The thing is, they really
> shouldn't.
>
> Up until recently, the only real file in that part of the repository
> was called test.py. At some point, we renamed it to synce-gnome, threw
> a setup.py and released it. But if you examine it, within the first 10
> lines you will still see "TestApp". It is about as old as odccm and
> was created to test out some of the odccm dbus API. Currently its only
> useful function it has is to deal with user passwords. It also has no
> hal-dccm support. It is called synce-gnome, but the extent of its
> gnome integration is that it has a GTK password entry box. It doesn't
> even have an icon, install a menu item or start as part of the
> session. For an end user, it kinda sucks.
>
> synce-trayicon more than removes the need for synce-gnome. I think
> even synce-sync-engine can handle passwords on its own (if it needs
> to).
>
> So does anyone have any objections to me moving synce-gnome to the
> obsolete branch?
No objections here. I really don't think that synce-gnome is useful in any way
anymore.
+1 on the svn mv ;)
Guido
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