Re: [gnome-network]gnome-sync

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

On Mar , 2004-03-02 at 03:28, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:04 -0600, Christopher Parker wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 05:26, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > I think it should probably be better to write plugins for nautilus to
> > > add a 'Synchronize' menu item in the Nautilus context menu. How does
> > > that sound?
> > > 
> > The nautilus plug-in sounds like a good idea, but I am not sure how I
> > would set it up.  What would you suggest?  A wizard-like interface? 
> > What would the application look like?
> > 
> hmm, I think it could just be a dialog. When selecting the item from
> Nautilus, you already have one directory (the selected one in Nautilus),
> so just have to ask for the other directory to synchronize. I guess a
> simple dialog could make it.
> 
> > I was just planning on hacking a bit on the current application, but it
> > looks like a shell without any backend.
> > 
> it is just a work in progress never finished.
> 
> > I would like to hack around on this project if anyone could come up with
> > some nice interface ideas.
> > 
> cool, if you like the nautilus plugin idea, then please work on that.
> 
> Does anybody have any comments?

We probably want to integrate this on a deeper level than a plug-in for
nautilus. Perhaps this can be part of the greater scheme of "make
multisync suck much much less" instead of "throw everything into the
nautilus UI"? It seems like using multisync is the right thing to do in
this case. It *is* supposed to be a sync framework. We should start
moving to it, and cleaning it up at some point, so it can be the sync
framework for GNOME. It would make it much easier for one to sync things
like local rss feeds to their palm/wince/etc... device, or to a web
site, or something else even.

-- dobey