Re: Proposed module: conduit

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:37 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> From Li Yuan regarding a11y:
> 
> "Accessibility is a problem for conduit. The GUI is simple, but the 
> left tree view doesn't support keyboard navigation well. Also one has 
> to drag some items to the right "sync area", there is no way to do this 
> by keyboard. And the "sync area" is not accessible. I suspect 
> accessibility work is need by goocanvas.

Yeah, I saw those bugs today. Thanks a lot. I had a few discussions at
GUADEC on how to actually implement the appropriate atk interfaces, for
the canvas items, using python directly. It seems documentation on how
to do this is a bit thin, at least in comparison with the rest of the
accessibility+gtk docs, where one can set properties on the widgets
directly.

Does anyone have any idea on how to go about doing this?

John

> 
> See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545429
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545430
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545431
> 
> Li"
> 
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 23:49 +1200, John Stowers wrote:
> >>> So with what sites can I easily sync my data (from what desktop
> >>> applications)?
> >>
> >> The following is a partial list of non-pim sync functionality
> >
> > I just tried Conduit (version 0.3.6 in Ubuntu Hardy) and I don't think
> > it's at all easy. I failed to figure out how to upload (or sync) photos
> > from a local folder to flickr. I did manage to drag rectangles for
> > flickr and a folder to the canvas.
> >
> > It seems roughly comparable to using the gstreamer pipeline editor
> > instead of using Totem. We can't possibly present this as an 
> > application
> > for users. Major -1 from me.
> >
> >
> > I don't like assistants (wizards) but I guess that this would be better
> > with an additional assistant, guiding people through the choices
> > somehow. For instance:
> >
> > Page 1:
> > Synchronize to web or to device:
> >
> > [] Website
> > [] Palm Pilot
> > [] Windows CE Device
> > [] Nokia Internet Tablet
> > [] Mobile Phone
> >
> > Page 2 (Website):
> >
> > Choose Folder.
> >
> > Synchronize this folder to:
> >
> > Photos:
> > [] Flickr
> > [] Picasa
> > etc
> >
> > Videos:
> > [] YouTube
> > [] Google Video
> > etc
> >
> > General Files:
> > [] Box.net
> >
> >
> >
> >> == Photos ==
> >> FSpot/eye of gnome/nautilus/folder <-->
> >>  * Flickr
> >>  * Picasa
> >>  * SmugMug
> >>  * ShutterFly
> >>  * Facebook
> >>  * iPod Phots
> >>
> >> == Videos ==
> >> totem/nautilus/folder -->
> >>  * Youtube
> >>  * iPod Video
> >>  * nxxx
> >>
> >> == Files ==
> >> * file/folder <--> file/folder
> >> * Box.net
> >> * S3 support (eta: 1 week)
> >> * Google Documents
> >>
> >> == Notes ==
> >> Tomboy Notes <-->
> >> * Backpack Notes
> >> * File/Folder
> >>
> >> == Misc ==
> >> * RSS feed enclosures
> >> * Desktop settings (GConf)
> >>
> >> There is also network sync functionality that allows two PCs to sync
> >> peer to peer any of the above listed data.
> >>
> >> I have not gone into the other sync permutations possible, and I am
> >> certain I have left some items out.
> >
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