OneConf and Software Center

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:25 -0400, Jason J. Herne wrote:
> Hi didrocks,
> 
> Thanks for working with me to develop a good overview for OneConf
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneConf) and for considering my design ideas.
> If I understand correctly you are the desktop team member who will be
> leading the OneConf effort?  I'm excited about this idea and I'm eager
> to help design and code it as much as I can.
> 
yes, sounds great, and in line with my plans for GNOME 3.0, if time
permits, which is to write a dconf (gconf replacement) backend based on
Desktopcouch, which would synchronize the settings database to all
computers the user registers with Ubuntu One.

>From the wiki page, I understand there might be cases where users don't
want settings for a specific app to be synchronized between computers
(not sure I'd want that, since I have the same settings in all my
computers, but I understand others would want to), but in the list of
apps in that wiki page, do you plan to go over each app and make their
settings sync? What about other apps the user wants but are not in the
list? That's why I think a desktopcouch-based dconf backend might be
better, since *all* settings would be replicated, and there won't be any
need to have a list of "supported apps".

Of course, some thought might be needed for not syncing specific
settings, if it's really something users need.