[kde-edu]: kamion migration and backup tool

[Ljubomir Simin]

Hi KDE Edu developers,


I'm Ljubomir Simin, from the Kamion project [1]. Kamion ("Truck" in 
Serbian language) is the (user friendly) migration tool, which allows to move 
and backup application data and settings. It was started by Ivan Čukić, the 
author of yet to be released Lancelot launcher, and now has gathered the new 
development team.

Our tool is in functioning shape, and we are looking for application 
developers willing to try us out.

The idea is simple: the application developers provide simple "recipes" - XML 
files which defines resources to be archived. Different kind of resources can 
be defined in one recipe, like application settings and data. Nothing more 
besides recipe is required from application developers. 
Users uses Kamion GUI tool to easily backup and restore their settings.

In case of KDE Edu, it could migrate settings, data files (vocabularies, logo 
files, maps, downloaded hotnewstuff), etc.

Kamion is written in Qt4 with KDE4 in mind, but 
there are some efforts aiming for desktop independence in the future. 

If you think the idea behind our project is valuable, please try it out and 
tell us your needs, comments and propositions. We would like to implement any 
feature needed to satisfy the application developers. In case you're 
wondering, our future plans include:

* unification for different applications to export same 
data - for example to provide some standard for email programs - how to 
format it's resources so that you could pack the data from KMail and import 
into thunderbird on another installation.

* Scripting - optional pre-packing and post-extracting shell scripts - so that 
they could filter unnecessary data or something.

* Changeable file locations for resources - the developers would be able to 
tell Kamion to search for the file location inside another file (for example 
inside a config file)

* Dynamic resources - so that different accounts in mail programs appear under 
different resources, and not in one common - mail messages.


As our website is a bit sparse in details, I'm attaching a sample recipe 
for Kopete, and a XSD of the recipe format.

Hope to hear you soon,


Ljubomir Simin 


[1] http://kamion2.sourceforge.net/


PS. I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, so please CC any replies to me. 
Thanks.
-- 
Ljubomir Simin 
Registered Linux User #351181