Re: Shiny Things Are Coming....

["Ken VanDine" <ken vandine org>]

Very cool!  I went ahead and added that patch to tomboy in foresight,
seems to work fine.

--Ken

On 8/11/07, john carr unrouted co uk <john carr unrouted co uk> wrote:
> Speaking of shiny things
>
> I've sent in a patch for Tomboy that will let the dbus API know about note
> changes.
>
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465639
>
> For us, this means we can now not only have the "ooh, new data, you wanna
> sync?" response.. but we can start to think about "always up to date"
> (AUTD). Not FileModule already has this kind of feature too, though its a
> bit too spammy  yet...
>
> I think now the sync logic has the get_changes API this might be quite
> easy to refactor in a cheap AUTD mode, although I haven't thought about it
> more than.. oooh thats cool!
>
> If we can rig up a sync worker with a dummy get_changes function - one
> that just returns the UID that we got from a tomboy event - then just our
> change will get applied to the other DP. The catch is that we don't know
> if the other DP has changes because it might not do AUTD!
>
> Maybe for now AUTD mode just involves triggering a full sync, though
> utilising events may well become important as we find our selves with
> bigger data sets to handle :)
>
> I'm quite eager to be able to do AUTD with Backpackit. Obviously
> backpackit can't trigger a sync, but we can update backpackit the *second*
> tomboy does something :-)
>
> John
>
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Ken VanDine
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