Written by PaddyLandau the 14 Jan 12 at 18:30.

Allow a user to "link" his desktop settings to his Ubuntu One account. The linking would allow the user to synchronise the following items (each one would have to be opt-in; none would be done by default):

* Wallpaper
* Theme
* The entire set of Compiz Config settings

(I'm open to other ideas as to what to synchronise.)

When linking a new login for the first time, the desktop would ask whether or not to synchronise each of the items (again, for privacy concerns, they would be opt-out by default).

Obviously, there would have to be a "sanity check" when synchronising onto a target machine. Thus:

* Themes would be synchronised only if the target machine supported that particular theme (so, for example, you wouldn't try to sync a 10.04 theme with its panels onto a 12.04 theme with Unity, or an imported theme onto a computer without that theme being available).

* Compiz Config settings would be synchronised only if the target machine had the same version of Ubuntu (so don't try to synchronise (say) Kubuntu with Lubuntu).

Allow a user to "link" his desktop settings to his Ubuntu One account. The linking would allow the user to synchronise the following items (each one would have to be opt-in; none would be done by default): * Wallpaper * Theme * The entire set of Compiz Config settings (I'm open to other ideas as to what to synchronise.) When linking a new login for the first time, the desktop would ask whether or not to synchronise each of the items (again, for privacy concerns, they would be opt-out by default). Obviously, there would have to be a "sanity check" when synchronising onto a target machine. Thus: * Themes would be synchronised only if the target machine supported that particular theme (so, for example, you wouldn't try to sync a 10.04 theme with its panels onto a 12.04 theme with Unity, or an imported theme onto a computer without that theme being available). * Compiz Config settings would be synchronised only if the target machine had the same version of Ubuntu (so don't try to synchronise (say) Kubuntu with Lubuntu). EDIT: Communications with Ubuntu One are all encrypted and stored safely. This would, of course, apply to this option.

Written by wincus the 2 Nov 12 at 14:39.

Use Ubuntu one account to sync gconf and config files across multiple devices.

Use Ubuntu one account to sync gconf and config files across multiple devices.

Written by beruic the 21 Nov 12 at 10:02.

First of all, like with Dropbox, the user may not wish to sync all configuration to all machines.

Secondly, some config may be unsuitable for syncing, as changes in different versions of Ubuntu may render them incompatible.

Therefore there should be a nice user-friendly GUI in U1 (or perhaps some other app utilizing U1, but also able to export to a file) to make it easy for the user to select which application configs and system settings to sync. This way system settings may also be stored in an intermediate format, with filters for every version, and perhaps flavour of Ubuntu. Applications may likewise provide helpers to only sync parts of the config, omit config that may cause more damage than good, handle concurrency (e.g. syncing tomboy notes), or simply just to know which folders to sync for what purpose (e.g. sync only the notes of Tomboy, rather than the settings of the application, or perhaps to omit machine specific settings for another application).

First of all, like with Dropbox, the user may not wish to sync all configuration to all machines. Secondly, some config may be unsuitable for syncing, as changes in different versions of Ubuntu may render them incompatible. Therefore there should be a nice user-friendly GUI in U1 (or perhaps some other app utilizing U1, but also able to export to a file) to make it easy for the user to select which application configs and system settings to sync. This way system settings may also be stored in an intermediate format, with filters for every version, and perhaps flavour of Ubuntu. Applications may likewise provide helpers to only sync parts of the config, omit config that may cause more damage than good, handle concurrency (e.g. syncing tomboy notes), or simply just to know which folders to sync for what purpose (e.g. sync only the notes of Tomboy, rather than the settings of the application, or perhaps to omit machine specific settings for another application).

Written by s990we the 1 Sep 09 at 15:41.

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