Hey Planet GNOME’rs
Thanks Jeff for putting me on Planet GNOME. My name is John Stowers and i’m currently splitting my time between a few things that might be of interest to people here.
- Synchronization and the GNOME Desktop
I probably spend most of my free time hacking on Conduit, which is a synchronization application for GNOME. I hope to provide a (DBus) service where application authors can use Conduit for their individual sync and export capabilities, and don’t have to keep reimplementing them in their own applications. Furthermore as a stand alone application I aspire to the ease of use of Apple’s .Mac while supporting core GNOME technologies.
More information- Conduit Website
- Slides and Video from a talk at Linux.conf.au
- The next release is scheduled for around the same time as the release of GNOME 2.18 and will support that favorite requested feature *cough*tomboy synchronization*cough*. Thanks Boyd.
- Conduit Website
- A Metadata Enabled GNOME
Im pretty excited about Tracker and the ability to move away from a folder centric GNOME. By embracing metadata, tagging, and a desktop indexer I think that we will leap past our competitors in terms of integration between applications. To this end I am hacking on;- Nautilus + Tracker integration
Injecting some love into the nautilus emblem functionality. Support tagging and attaching emblems (emblem = a tag with an image) from either nautilus or Tracker. - Nautilus metadata integration
Working with neilj on a nautilus-on-steroids + libtracker-gtk. Lets make metadata visible (in nautilus) and easy for application authors to add to their apps (libtracker-gtk) - GtkFileChooser + Tracker
Attach tags and notes at save time (whats the state of the filechooser extension spec?)
- Nautilus + Tracker integration
Other than that Im 23 years old, just finished a masters and electrical engineering at the University of Canterbury. Im really an electronics nerd so im also hacking on Albatross Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle. Im doing some traveling around Europe for the next few months and then probably starting a phD.
Looks very promising. Synch is clearly something missing for Linux, with today’s tools: PDA, internet, laptop, desktop, mobile phone, MP3 player, etc… etc…
I saw “F-spot datasource (70% complete)” in the status page. What will it be about? You have 2 computers and you can sync your photos between 2 F-spot db? That would be HUGE, I have this problem with my laptop being used to store my photos while travelling, but then when I come back, I have to reimport everything, and I lose the tags and other info.
Any plan to do the same with banshee or rhythmbox?
About files sync, do you allow FTP / SSH, this kind of things? Are u using rsync?
Sorry, plenty of questions, but I would be the typical very happy “customer” of this kind of application I think, I fit in plenty of situations
If you need a beta testers and ideas submitter, count me in!
Me again. Something missing on the Conduct websites: Contact info. I can’t find an email address to use if I want to contact somebody. Maybe you do this on purpose to push people to use Trac tickets.
I just wanted to know how I could help to translate Conduct? I can do it in French. I checked on Launchpad, and didn’t find Conduct. I don’t know if I can submit the translation file in Trac.
Hey John
I somehow stumbled across this website and I decided to read it in the hope that I would learn more about what it is you do. Turns out I couldn’t understand ANYTHING on ANY part of this website.
Man how did you get so smart and I get so dumb?
Hayley