Proposed: multisync

[Daniel Stone]

(Chris accidentally sent this to me instead of the list.)

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:52:51PM -0400, Chris Lee wrote:
> Personally, I think MultiSync is an awesome idea, and I agree that 
> having a unified synchronization framework would be wonderful; however, 
> the current version is not nearly desktop-agnostic enough to be 
> recommended as a part of the platform.

Agreed - these were my concerns exactly.

> I think that the MultiSync and OpenSync guys need to sort out their 
> projects and come up with something that everyone can use. We can't 
> forget that this is about more than GNOME and KDE. XFCE, GNUstep, and 
> anybody else who wants to should be able to take advantage of the 
> platform that we're constructing.

Yes, absolutely; hence my comments about the other platforms. It's not
just about two desktops, or one OS.

> So, if I have any such right, I would exercise a veto at this point, but 
> hopefully we can include them with the next platform release (or 
> OpenSync, or whatever they both come up with together).

You have a right, and veto it is; seems you're echoing my encouragement
to go sit down and sort out the sync situation under Linux once and for
all.

:) d

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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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