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Most of us have got at least a desktop, a notebook and perhaps even a netbook (never mind KDE mobile...).

I for one make good use of KDE's extensive possibilities for fiddling - it behaves just like I want it to.

Wouldn't it be great if, at the click of a button, I could sync my devices so the latest greatest change on my desktop is also on my notebook (incl. PIM...).

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Looks like there is a bunch calling for this feature:

brainstorm.php#idea86270_page1
brainstorm.php#idea38998_page1

All in all nearly 200 votes and there might well be more...

Wow,its great.Can you please specify how you did it,so it would be more useful for us.Thanks in advance.

No, I haven't done it, I'd like to see it done, though.

afaik you'd need to copy the following directories over
~/.kde(4)
~/.config/akonadi
~/.config/kde.org

I _think_ that if you kept those three synced you'd be alright but it is a ton of stuff, most of which probably not necessary, some - like the amarok database - not even useful.

HTH

The current development along these lines is with OwnCloud. Still a bit experimental though. http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page

The way that I would like this to work is to have a generic file syncing application with support for KDE (and other) settings.

Also it should be able to hold differences you want between different hosts. For example I want to sync emails, recently sent addresses and personal details between KMail on my dekstop and netbook but keep very different interface options on them.

Sounds like a good idea but...
Would it sync everything or just look like it did?

"Look I know I put the video footage in my document folder, some haxOr must have deleted it..."

What's the point, really? Just copy few folders, beginning with $HOME/.kde4 on USB stick or move to Dropbox or whatever, copy to another machines $HOME and you're good to go.

To be more specific, this would just open security risks, incompatibilities in configs (think syncing KDE 4.6.3 with other distro's 4.7-rc2 for example), and in the end doesn't remove so much burden from user.

@ daedaluz

I agree it is not KISS (and as Arch user I like KISS) but it would greatly simplify life for most users, I'm sure.

Also, simply copying over ~/.kde4 is not always desirable as mentioned in my previous post.It also depends on which widgets are installed and what have you. I think to make this work you'd need a decently worked and tested script.

I think this would be better off as a KDE/Qt front end for rsync designed for this exact purpose. By keeping it generic you can also sync non-KDE user data (~/Documents etc.)

Fun part would be handling conflicting changes. If I change a file on both laptop and desktop after a sync in different ways what would happen? I don't know how rsync handles this.