libfolks was explicitly designed to aggregate contact information instead of synchronising it, entirely because synchronisation is hard. Philip On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 11:43 +0200, daniel g. siegel wrote: > another very important point is synchronisation. together with salomon > sickert we thought about how to solve this problem. basically we came up > with the idea of a self-replicating backend, like couchdb. if we then > could add support to the contact apps of other computer/devices like a > n900 or android, we would get synchronisation and conflict management > for free. > > then there is also the idea of having a webservice for the gnome > contacts app, where you can access your contacts over the internet. > > we are very interested in your opinions about this! > > daniel > > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:27 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 09:29 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote: > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2011-March/005369.html > > > [4] > > > > This seems to talk about querying contacts from slow social web > > services. Additionally if this is to be our story in evolution too we > > need to be able to efficiently handle ldap contacts, which are really > > important for enterprise deployments of email. This also needs a live > > search approach, because we can't rely on a local copy of all ldap data. > > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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