Re: What I can do with Online Desktop at this moment?

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:01 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
>   
> > If you have an interest in an application outside of the bigboard 
> > getting the accounts information, we can prioritize breaking the 
> > Accounts system out into a separate python module and providing a D-Bus 
> > API for it. We can also change accounts.py if there is some 
> > functionality that is missing in it or if there are some other account 
> > types that need to be added if you plan to use it for a new bigboard 
> > widget. There is also a plan to have the accounts dialog have a version 
> > that only lets the user edit a subset of account types, so that the user 
> > can concentrate on the current task. For example, a dialog with only 
> > Twitter accounts that is opened up for a Twitter widget or a dialog with 
> > only photo site accounts that is opened up for F-Spot.
> >     
>
> I have some doubts related with this. For example, I've read a previous
> thread [1] that talks about how to provide Online Desktop support to
> Tomboy application, thinking to use as storage system an external web
> service, Remeber The Milk (RTM) [2].
> I don't know how is this development at the moment, however I see that
> RTM accounts as stored under "/apps/bigboard/accounts/" at GConf, I
> think that it's because you're developing a Big Board widget to provide
> an online Tomboy.
> In my opinion, it'd be better modify Tomboy to allow it to synchronize
> with RTM independently of Big Board. In this case RTM accounts shouldn't
> be stored under "/apps/bigboard/accounts/", because Big Board won't
> use them.
>
> Maybe I don't explain me fine. I'm going to try to rewrite my idea.
> I'd like that Online Desktop provides me synchronization services
> transparently. About note-taking, I'd like to use Tomboy at work to
> write a note, and when I open Tomboy at home have the same note written.
> I don't like have to use a new application (maybe a Big Board widget)
> that provides me an online note-taking system, I prefer don't have to
> change my common application to take notes.
> For this reason I think that accounts system should be a module
> separated of Big Board, and consequently accounts wouldn't be stored
> under "/apps/bigboard/accounts/", for example they would be stored
> below "/apps/online-desktop/accounts/" and every GNOME application
> (Tomboy, Big Board, or other application) should be able to get/set
> information about this accounts and use this information for your own
> purpose.
>   
Yes, this is exactly the plan for the Accounts system, and that's what I 
meant by "breaking the Accounts system out into a separate python module 
and providing a D-Bus API for it". It doesn't even matter as much which 
GConf directory we'll end up storing the accounts in, whether it is 
"/apps/bigboard/accounts/", "/apps/online-desktop/accounts/", or 
"/desktop/gnome/online-accounts" (something we are considering). While 
Tomboy can modify accounts in whatever GConf directory is used for 
storing them, the important feature of the Accounts system would be that 
it would provide Tomboy with an API to get the Remember The Milk account 
information from the GConf and a dialog to prompt the user about it. 
This way Tomboy would not need to have the code for storing stuff in the 
GConf or prompting the user about it. If there is a Remember The Milk 
widget that is part of the Big Board, it will use the same Accounts 
system API to get the RTM account information.
> Maybe I'm completely wrong, it's only my opinion, and I like to know
> what do you think about this possibility.
>
>
>   
> > In addition to continuing this discussion on the mailing list, feel free 
> > to join #online-desktop on GimpNet with any questions!
> >     
>
> IMHO you should add this irc channel at live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop
> below "Discussion" [3].
>   
Thank you for pointing this out! I updated the wiki page.

Marina
> Finally, thank you very much to answer all my questions I'm very
> grateful for your help.
>
> Best regards,
>    Rego
>
>
> [1]
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/online-desktop-list/2008-January/msg00072.html
> [2] http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
> [3] http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop
>
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