Summer Coding 2010 ideas - Kronikarz - shortinfo

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Status: "Idea"

Summary of idea: [Initial idea proposed by Alexei Panov] Handy graphical tool for archiving settings of desktop applications. This tool will be useful for users who:

• want to simply backup / restore look-and-feel and settings of desktop applications;
• frequently migrate from one distribution to another;
• have more then one device and want to sync settings.

Contacts: Alexey Vasyukov

Mentor(s): For the moment Alexey Vasyukov, hope Alexei Panov will join.

Notes: Tool can be written to work with plugins (preferrable) or just bunch of configuration files to describe backup / restore / sync methods and enable support for certain application.

Proposed features:

• Easy search and select installed applications for backup / restore / sync
• Can work as application or as daemon
• Has scheduler and backup / restore / sync settings (archive type, passwords, compression rate, additive/solid, etc.)
• Custom selection of applications for archiving (one, group, all, etc.)
• Restoring data from archive with tracking of current application, nonexistent on target machine applications should be reinstalled from PackageKit
• Including user selected files in archive for restoring on target machine (possibly searching and automatic including configuration files or files of specified types).

More information

The main page for Summer Coding 2010 ideas is Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas.

Status: "Idea"

Summary of idea: [Initial idea proposed by Alexei Panov] Handy graphical tool for archiving settings of desktop applications. This tool will be useful for users who:

• want to simply backup / restore look-and-feel and settings of desktop applications;
• frequently migrate from one distribution to another;
• have more then one device and want to sync settings.

Contacts: Alexey Vasyukov

Mentor(s): For the moment Alexey Vasyukov, hope Alexei Panov will join.

Notes: Tool can be written to work with plugins (preferrable) or just bunch of configuration files to describe backup / restore / sync methods and enable support for certain application.

Proposed features:

• Easy search and select installed applications for backup / restore / sync
• Can work as application or as daemon
• Has scheduler and backup / restore / sync settings (archive type, passwords, compression rate, additive/solid, etc.)
• Custom selection of applications for archiving (one, group, all, etc.)
• Restoring data from archive with tracking of current application, nonexistent on target machine applications should be reinstalled from PackageKit
• Including user selected files in archive for restoring on target machine (possibly searching and automatic including configuration files or files of specified types).