On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:12 +0200, Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote: > Hello, > > once I've tested Online Desktop, I'm trying to know what functionalities > can provide to me at this moment as a developer. > > For now I can check that it allows store GConf keys at Online Desktop > server and it's able to synchronise these keys. This is very useful, > because you don't need to configure your application on each computer > that you use; and if you change some preference, it will be changed in > every computer. > If you think that it's a good idea I can write how to do it at > http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/ like I relate in this email [1]. I > don't know if I've done it well or not. That would be great, if you wanted to put some information at live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/PrefsSync or something like that. The need to have a schema isn't obvious and has tripped us up before. > What more things I can do with Online Desktop at this moment? As a user? What you see is pretty much what you get. The features of online desktop are currently: - The bigboard, and the available set of bigboard stocks (people, files, applications, etc.) - The Mugshot stacker application - GConf sync So, the work at this point is: - Make the existing features better - Come up with ideas for more features - Implement them - Enhance the infrastructure to support that All of which we'd love to have more people contributing to. > What can Online Desktop provides to my applications now? Here are some things that are available to applications through the the data model right now. - The user's name and headshot - The user's email/aim/XMPP addresses - The user's account names on services like Flickr, Facebook, etc. - The user's contacts (on online.gnome.org, and also from their IM program.), and names/headshots/etc. for those contacts - The user's currently playing music track Some of these things are obviously more useful than others for applications. > Owen said me that they are working to provide an API to store data > needed to access to external web services (for example Gmail), but it > isn't supported yet. You can get the Gmail account name already. What isn't there is a standard way to get the password or prompt for it. We'll probably eventually provide a Python convenience library for that.... though the underlying store for the password is something standard to GNOME, the GNOME keyring. - Owen
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