Re: My google summer of code project. Nautilus: Add support to Google docs

[Natan Yellin <aantny gmail com>]

Hello Thibault,

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:57 PM, saunierthibault gmail com <saunierthibault gmail com> wrote:

Alexander Larsson wrote:

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:09 +0100, saunierthibault gmail com wrote:
 

Hello,

   I am Thibault Saunier, a computer science student in an
engineering school (EPSI Lyon).  I am very interested by participating
in the gnome soc 2009. So I have an idea for my project which I am
describing in the document I will send for my application. But as you
say on gnome website it is better to ask your opinion about the
project first. So here is my idea:

Nautilus: Add support to Google docs

Neat. :)

I suggest that you give the GNOME Online Desktop[1] a quick look. There's some code to handle google documents that you might find useful.

     * Benefits: Let users handle (copy, paste...) their Google Docs
       with nautilus. They would also be able to edit them with any
       word/spreadsheet/presentation processor.
     * Requirements: Since I am going to use GVFS, I will use the C
       programming language (I have been learning this language for 3
       years now and can manage with this). I will also use the Gdata
       API which permit to manage google docs files on client
       applications.
     * Description: Write the google docs support in GVFS. Write code
       in nautilus to add the possibility to connect to google docs
       thanks to the 'fiile -> connect to server' dialogBox.
                   I rode on the Google Advice for student web-page that it is better
to send my application document to some people before applying, so if
anyone of you is interesting by reading it, I would be glade to send
it to you!
   

Sounds like a useful project.
What kind of protocol does google docs use for client file access?

The Google-doc API (gdata) is based on HTTP requests. For example to get the list of documents, you need to send a GET request to
http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/full and it returns an XML file describing all folders/documents the logged user has on-line...

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-Natan

P.S. I've CCed Owen Taylor, the lead developer of the Online Desktop in case he has any advice on the topic.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop