Comments on: Conduit Is Online Desktop

By: Dylan McCall

Dylan McCall — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:16:47 +0000

Looks awesome. I have always wanted a smooth, easy to use, powerful synchronization tool. At first I was a bit unsure, but at this point Conduit definitely seems to be it. I was initially unsure because I was not certain how much work was being put into open-endedness; making the system accessible through scripts and the like. From the looks of it, you are doing a lot for that!

Something I would love to see is a way to set up a two-way sync across multiple computers, while only having to set it up once.
For example, I have a USB key that I am using for syncronizing with Conduit. The dream is to some day have a computer instantly do a two-way sync with the thing the moment I mount it (possible via a script and the d-bus interface, I believe?), but what would be really neat is if I only had to set that up once.

For example, shove the usb key in, tell Conduit to set it up for quick synchronization, perhaps by putting a hidden file on its root. Conduit (on any computer, out of the box) could recognize a mounted file-system set up like that, and automatically sync as defined via the hidden file.
I am not 100% positive how well that could be integrated into your existing (and fantastic) interface, but I think it would be quite awesome as an out of the box feature. Maybe as a dataprovider with a magical twist somewhere…

Sorry, kind of an off topic ramble there. Long story short, I really like what you are doing here. Conduit, even in this early stage, is one of few programs that I trust to do exactly what I expect it to do

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:15:49 +0000

Ah! Just seen your latest post. Thanks for looking into it

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:46:05 +0000

Hi,

Do you have any idea why autogen.sh in the latest svn might be giving me this error:

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Running glib-gettextize… Ignore non-fatal messages.

Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files
codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
progtest.m4
from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

Running intltoolize…

Running aclocal-1.4…

aclocal: configure.ac: 18: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON’ not found in library

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ta!

By: michael schurter

michael schurter — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:33:48 +0000

Wow… Conduit really is the answer to how to build an Online Desktop. Very impressive!

Although hopefully someday your pretty UI will be relegated to a little used Control Panel that you use to setup everything once and then never have to think about again!

By: mike

mike — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:42:15 +0000

Hey, hopefully opensync will deliver EvoPhone support!

Then Conduit would really kick ass for me

By: bjoern

bjoern — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:12:05 +0000

Thanks a lot John for your awesome work!
Wouldn’t it be cool to have telepathy-tubes supoort in conduit? *hint, hint :)*

By: yop

yop — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:18:06 +0000

Rock on !
Thank you so much for your great work.

By: john.stowers

john.stowers — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:14:03 +0000

@Philip,
I will be at linux.conf.au next year. Unfortunately New Zealand is a long way from most of the other FOSS conferences. I would love to start a dialog with you re tinymail.

@zetotof,
We are aware of the gnome-sync project. We support opensync plugins (or will soon) so in may regards we already work with them.

Thanks all for your comments!

By: Pierre S

Pierre S — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:01:42 +0000

Thanks a lot for the new features.
This software is Actually Useful (TM)

By: zetotof

zetotof — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:58:40 +0000

Awesome!

I just would like to know if there are planification to collaborate with the gnome-sync project, which does similar things : http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Gnome_sync_demos . It would be a shame if the two best sync projects didn’t merge.