Synchronization
MartinG
gronslet at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 16:20:24 CEST 2008
On 4/11/08, ramsesoriginal <ramsesoriginal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM, David Pottage <david at electric-spoon.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, April 11, 2008 3:57 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Ok, that sounds good. Is this system also supported by "mainstream"
> applications? I think of the secretary who uses outlook, or maybe
> thunderbird..
> Anotehr question is if this would also allow to sync other infromation
> like geodata/tags, feed list (and the read/unread status of the
> feeds), etc.. is there already some standard for that, or would we
> have to start from scratch?
For contacts, calendar, todos, etc. there is a project called opensync
which is very promising. I used it while it was named multisync, but
they decided to rewrite the whole thing from scratch to make it easier
to develop. It is pluginbased now. I think KDE 4 will support opensync
through kitchensync/akonadi. It is still in beta, but I think a new
release will be out soon.
"OpenSync is a synchronization framework that is platform and
distribution independent."
www.opensync.org
For the geodata I think the opensync developers are thinking of some
sort of generel file synchronization as well, maybe using rsync as a
plugin to opensync, but I'm not sure about that.
Clearly, a device running openmoko must be the simplest device
thinkable to develop a synchronization tool for, as one can tune bits
on both sides. (I'm not saying it will be trivial though...)
-MartinG
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