Usability improvement for SynCE
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| synce-kde (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
A. I think it would make sense to create a metapackage "synce" that depends on:
synce-kde, synce-serial, and the rest of the useful synce packages. This would save the average user the first section of most howto's and web searching.
B. synce should install udev rules for the creation of ttyUSB devices so that they automatically launch synce-serial-start on the device (currently synce-serial-start uses the device previously specified by synce-serial-config but this can either be modified or the config tool can be used in the udev scripts).
C. Run "vdccm" at boot-time (so that the device can be plugged in before user log in, and raki is launched). Currently "raki" launches it but that depends on user login - and does not make much sense. vdccm should not run as root so it may mean the creation of a "pda" or "pilot" user.
D. Automate the running of raki at login, so that the user has GUI access to his working PDA whenever it is plugged in.
I believe that just these fixes would make the Ubuntu user experience with WinCE devices much nicer, as currently the user needs to do quite a bit of research to know what to install, and then to know that he needs to run "raki" and "synce-
This is an attempt to automate the connection of PDA's but I have been unsuccessful in attempting to apply the patch, as it seems that it applies to an unknown branch of synce-serial that I cannot find in sourceforge's svn or anywhere else: http://
| Changed in synce-kde: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in synce-kde: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| dotancohen (dotancohen) wrote | #1 |
| dotancohen (dotancohen) wrote | #2 |
I agree. Setting up Synce is a pain, one of the last pains left in Ubuntu. Also, the Synce project is up to version 0.10.0 now, so the Ubuntu packages should be updated.