Late LinuxTag impressions
A delayed writing up on my one day visit at LinuxTag:
I took the train to Karlsruhe in the morning, sadly it had no power plug in the whole train so I was not able to do the scheduled bitbake hacking.
I arrived at 10 o’clock in Karlsruhe and went straight to KDE booth, it was way smaller compared to LinuxTag 2002. I waited for Tobias König, Cornelius Schumacher and Michael Lauer to arrive…
Cornelius, Tobias and me met with Armin Bauer of OpenSync to discuss its possible usage in KDE: Basicallyy OpenSync is 1:1 copy of the core architecture of KitchenSync but written in C and using glib. Its strong points are it is actively developed and looks like it will be maintained as well and it does not use KResource and libkcal natively for transporting its data. Almost all crashes I’ve seen with KitchenSync are due issues with KResource so OpenSync promises to be more stable. OpenSync promises that people only need to write one plugin for each gadget and this is where OpenSync can help both GPE and Opie.
Both projects will only need to provide one plugin, written in there favorite language and it will work with KDE, Evolution, Mozilla… that is probably the most promising aspect of OpenSync and makes the usage of glib acceptable.
Sadly I did not get OpenSync to do anything useful yet (using file and evolution plugin) the multisync gui simply hangs…