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[Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(as posted to Andrea's blog, but other people may find it interesting too)

Hi, Andrea!

This is a great idea. As head of the Ubuntu One application developer 
programme, I’m happy to give some advice on how this might be done. Here 
are a few links that you might find useful, for people who have 
discussed this sort of project before.

* http://launchpad.net/stipple (a previous project which had roughly 
this idea, but used the now defunct desktopcouch technology to sync with 
Ubuntu One)
* 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/48444/will-ubuntu-one-support-os-settings-sync/48541#48541 
(my answer to someone else asking about this, which explains some of the 
harder aspects of it)
* http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=1342 (Ubuntu One’s U1DB 
project for data sync)
* https://one.ubuntu.com/developer/ (API documentation for Ubuntu One)

I’d love to chat more about this if you’re interested in starting work 
on such a project; I have thoughts on it, and can give some guidance and 
ideas!

sil

On 21/02/12 17:03, a.grandi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in these days I had an idea we could discuss about and maybe try to
> implement for Ubuntu 12.10.
> In few words: my idea is to make the user able to synchronize his
> desktop settings among multiple computers and storing these shared
> settings in the Ubuntu One folder.
> It's a feature that (as far as I know) no other OS has (yet).
>
> More informations here:
> http://www.andreagrandi.it/2012/02/21/ubuntu-syncronizing-settings-among-multiple-pc-using-ubuntu-one/
>
> What do you think about?
>
> Best regards,