Another Introductory Post

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:47:28 +0000

Hey Planet GNOME’rs

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

1. [Conduit Website

](http://www.conduit-project.org/ )

A Metadata Enabled GNOME

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:41:27 +0000

When Tracker was proposed for GNOME 2.18 I was one of its staunchest supporters , arguing that a GNOME wide unified metadata storage system would enable a richer desktop experience, and take GNOME beyond its competition. Tracker did not make the cut for GNOME 2.18, and will no doubt be proposed again for GNOME 2.20.

To help people see the potential of a GNOME desktop using Tracker I have been working on two projects for the past little while. Both of these are components of my larger vision of a metadata rich GNOME desktop. These initial attempts just focus on making tagging [1] a more consistent experience for all GNOME apps. Consider the examples and screenshots (for a file called nice) below;

Tracker on John Stowers

Another Introductory Post

A Metadata Enabled GNOME