Well I have finally arrived in Canada, which signifies the end of my travels around Europe. Back in NZ in a week to start my PhD. Aside from the photos which I have been taking and irregularly uploading I have;
- Bought a Nokia n800 (watch for a conduit port soon)
- Played with an iPhone (its the little things, attention to detail of all transitions between operations)
- Watched Transformers (not bad)
- Read (1984, Fahrenheit 911, The God Delusion)
- Hacked on Conduit
- Missed GUADEC (I hope the videos and slides will go up soon)
- Updated to Gutsy (went smoothly)
Conduit Schmonduit
I released 0.3.2 last week or so. Aside from bug fixes we also added box.net support (sync evolution/files/tomboy notes/etc to/from/via box.net), and also added the ability to delete photos from the supported photo sites (Flickr, picasaweb, smugmug). This means that Conduit can now better keep your photos (in a folder, or in f-spot) in sync. This includes removing them when they are removed from the synchronized folder, or tagged/untagged in F-spot.
Most of the work is now happening in the better-mvc branch which will land soon. This is a general tidy up of the code base and a better split of the synchronization logic from the GUI. This will not only allow for improved good looks; but other improvements too.
Mock-up Credit: Karl Lattimer
Nice to hear about the work on conduit and your upgrade to gutsy. You probably didn’t notice but there was a fairly active thread on the Ubuntu forums about mobile phone synchronization in Ubuntu and it evolved over time into a discussion about better synchronization period.
The majority being 219 votes to five. You see the thread discusses how the current PalmOS synchronization is outdated and should be replaced with something like conduit. This conclusion was made because of a number of reasons, people are more likely to use their mobile phone as an organizer these days than a PalmOS based device.
The second being that according to palm the PalmOS software is dead.
What were the drawbacks of the thread. Well more like a drawback.
Conduit does not currently support mobile phone synchronization. This proved a tedious battle as when discussing on irc to the maintainers and developers whether conduit should replace PalmOS synchronization, the common reply being. Conduit doesn’t currently support mobile phone synchronization nor does it state on its roadmap any plans for a release of its mobile phone support.. Another big one was their lack of knowledge on opensync’s development. They seem to think it is not maintained frequently which could not be further from the case. I was just wondering, is it not more viable to support a standardized system like sony ericssons, nokia’s etc method of synchronization than aiming for the more expensive counterparts. iphone etc. You can get allot of support in there that way. I don’t know, maybe your waiting for a more stable release of opensync before adding support but it seems wasteful to me. Conduit is a great application which should be made available to as much devices as possible.
You should put some gradient gloss in the yellow and green labels to make them look more sexy.
who needs pr0n? This mockup is way too sexy.
Yep - look good on getdeb but I can’t use it on Gutsy because of python-vobject, which depend on python-dateutil, wich will not be instaled because of some other python dependencies.
I’ll wait to see conduit on Ubuntu repositories. Until then good luck on development.