On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Markus Feilner <li...@feilner-it.net>wrote:
> Hello List, > > After the KDE Summit I had an idea that probably needs a lot of refinement. > However, everyone that I talked to about it found it interesting: How a > bout > a central, synching cloud-API for local KDE configuration options? > > At first the thought came to me when seeing Plasma-Active, but the topic > extends way beyond mobile devices. > Does anybody know if there are plans for a centralized config-management > for > KDE/Linux devices? For example: I hate to enter my e-mail-footer into every > k-9-android or whatever mobile mail client i use. On the other hand I love > how chrome automatically spreads the bookmarks across my devices, but I > hate > that Google holds all my data. > It would then be KDE that will be holding your data! would new users want KDE to become the next google? (only in server farms context ) > > Imagine: After the start, just enter your login data and select the config > you > want to load from your or the project's server (e.g. bookmarks, mail client > config, bash aliases, shortcuts, background grafics ... and other typical > linux-stuff) - and you're done, having almost all of your environment. This > could grow by community efforts, I guess, and i mean both config files and > e.g. grafics (like the desktop backgrounds) Sort of an "active cloud". > Wasn't > there once such a project around freedesktop.org? I think that's really > important and that would be a killer app - like Blackberry's stuff. > > After thinking a little more about that, i guess that also desktop users > could > be happy with an API-kind of thing for configuration management. That way, > every application could allow the user to choose, if and which settings > should be stored "in the cloud". This way, I would have e.g. all my > Katesnippets or E-Mail-Config (including e.g. my signatures, templates, > paths ...) instantaneously on all my systems, no matter where or when I > changed it. > >From API, what came to my mind was, why not make a KCloud server (I'm new to KDE, please tell me if i'm talking gibberish )which will be an open source cloud software that runs on your server and provides cloud services. Like, then one could have one's own cloud server or a server in a group. (the next question being, will mom allow me to keep a server in my garage :P ). > > For example: If my office telefone number changes, I edit it on my > desktop's > signature file and my mobile phone and my Tablet and my notebook > automatically would receive the updated signature file next time the mail > client is started - no need for a push here, i think, albeit via tools like > active sync (Z-Push) that might be possible, too. > > I think implementing that shouldn't be that hard, Just an interface that > says: "please choose if the config XXX (a complete file or folder, for the > beginning) should be stored locally or in a KDE Ressource. The latter would > only offer options for a local path, some cloud service or e.g. a dropbox > account") That could also make some stuff more transparent... Of course a > version check of the software used is obligatory, I guess - to avoid > misconfiguration - which is probably one of the more tricky things... > > Not being a programmer, I think this would be really cool. And I guess > pretty > much of that is already around... isn't it? Please correct me, if I am > totally > wrong, but I think this would really be a killer thing for the > Linux-Desktop. > > What do you think? Perhaps I'll do a blogpost on Linux-Magazine Germany on > that... :-) > > -- > > Best Regards - Mit freundlichen Gruessen > Markus Feilner > > ------------------------- > Feilner IT Linux & GIS > Linux Solutions, Training, Seminare, Workshops and Authoring > Koetztinger Strasse 6c 93057 Regensburg - Germany > Phone: +49 941 8 10 79 89 > Mobile: +49 170 3 02 70 92 > Web: www.feilner-it.net mail: mfeil...@feilner-it.net > Xing: http://www.xing.com/profile/Markus_Feilner > Linkedin: http://de.linkedin.com/in/markusfeilner > Linux Magazine Germany: mfeil...@linux-magazin.de > -------------------------------------- > My books at Packt: Open source - privacy and connectivity for everyone! > New and revised: > http://www.packtpub.com/learning-openvpn-2-0-9/book > Sold more than 5000 times: http://www.packtpub.com/openvpn/book > My Groupware book: http://www.packtpub.com/scalix/book > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << > Yours, Naman
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