Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Michael Terry <mike mterry name> wrote:
>
> For the next major version (20.0), I've done a redesign aimed at
> making it more "invisible" and appear as part of the OS.  I've made it
> live just as a control center panel and removed some branding to look
> a bit less like a separate app.

So while I agree this new redesign looks better than the old app UI,
you've caught us at a somewhat tricky time as we're trying to increase
focus on quality in the core, and less on picking applications.

Deja Dup could definitely qualify pretty easily as a "Featured
Application"; see:
https://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone/FeaturedApps

A few concerns:
1) I'd like to see at least some discussion for how (if) this
intersects with the already existing Finding and Reminding feature:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/FindingAndReminding
2) The external dependency set is pretty large =(  It looks like
duplicity would in turn pull in quite a few new modules.  If you're
serious about proposing this though, can you try fixing the jhbuild in
the gnome-apps-3.2 moduleset to actually work?

_librsyncmodule.c:26:22: fatal error: librsync.h: No such file or directory

It looks like it's missing several things; the Fedora package at least
depends on librsync, gnupg, python-boto.

3) If you're still planning to have this run outside of GNOME, are you
going to keep around the application mode in some way?  If so, maybe
it makes sense to stick with that for this cycle, and we can make it a
Featured App, and revisit deeper integration for 3.4?