Thanks Jeff
for putting me on Planet GNOME. My name is John Stowers and i’m currently splitting my time between a few things that might be of interest to people here.
Synchronization and the GNOME Desktop
I probably spend most of my free time hacking on Conduit, which is a synchronization application for GNOME. I hope to provide a (DBus) service where application authors can use Conduit for their individual sync and export capabilities, and don’t have to keep reimplementing them in their own applications. Furthermore as a stand alone application I aspire to the ease of use of Apple’s .Mac while supporting core GNOME technologies.More information
2. [Slides](http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/presentations/LCA2007_GNOME_Conduit_Presentation.pdf) and [Video](http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/monday/monday_1450_GNOME.ogg) from a [talk](http://live.gnome.org/Sydney2007#head-9b2b1f3065cf8635338348f7f2d4076dc744c054) at [Linux.conf.au](http://lca2007.linux.org.au/)
3. The next release is scheduled for around the same time as the release of GNOME 2.18 and will support that favorite requested feature *cough*tomboy synchronization*cough*. [Thanks Boyd](http://blog.timothy.ws/2007/02/whats-new-for-tomboy-060-not-released.html).
A Metadata Enabled GNOME
Im pretty excited about Tracker
and the ability to move away from a folder centric GNOME. By embracing metadata, tagging, and a desktop indexer I think that we will leap past our competitors in terms of integration between applications. To this end I am hacking on;
1. Nautilus + Tracker integration
Injecting some love into the nautilus emblem functionality. Support tagging and attaching emblems (emblem = a tag with an image) from either nautilus or Tracker.
2. Nautilus metadata integration
Working with neilj
on a nautilus-on-steroids + libtracker-gtk. Lets make metadata visible (in nautilus) and easy for application authors to add to their apps (libtracker-gtk)
