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

["saunierthibault gmail com" <saunierthibault gmail com>]

Natan Yellin wrote:
> Hello Thibault,
>
>             Hello Thibault,
>
>             On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:57 PM, saunierthibault gmail com
>             <mailto:saunierthibault gmail com>
>             <saunierthibault gmail com
>             <mailto:saunierthibault gmail com>> wrote:
>
>                 Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
>                     On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:09 +0100,
>                     saunierthibault gmail com
>                     <mailto: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.
I  downloaded it and will look at this code, thank you for the advise. I 
think my project is linked with this project even if my approach is 
different from what they are doing.
>                              * 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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>                 nautilus-list gnome org <mailto:nautilus-list gnome org>
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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...
>             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

I wonder how it works about mentors,  I looked for it on the Internet, 
but I don't understand how I can find a mentor if nobody proposes to be 
mine.

Thank you

Thibault Saunier