Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Conduit also meant for one-time syncs as well? I don’t understand how that would work in the current UI

My idea of how conduit would work assuming mentioned applications use Conduit to sync:
- Attach Phone to computer
- open Banshee, where phone shows as external source
- drag playlist from library to phone, Conduit dialog asks if I want to always sync to playlist
- open Contacts (Pimlico) - choose sync contacts from menu
- dialog opens with single element of above UI showing contacts as source (with option to make target) and potential targets on left. A tick box for always sync would be present. A “Advanced Setup” option could be present as well. Sync!

another option to all the application integration is a nautilus left click option to sync phone/iPod, which would bring up a UI with only supported sources available, checking off which ones you want synced.

Another example for transferring a movie to Youtube: there should be a left click option in nautilus to “post online” or “upload to..” - file would be recognized as a video and a dialog would offer the supported video sites.

basically the current UI is overkill for the majority of user operations, especially when considering one-time sync. Although the full power should be underneath, users like me don’t want to see all the choices every time. We want to see the options that make the most sense for that operation and then be able to dive deeper if what we want isnt there.

think “dynamic focused workflow” rather than “hears everything you can possibly do”