On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Matt Jones <
mattjones@...> wrote:
> Howdy. My first post to this list!
>
> I am playing with an experiment that can sync tomboy notes to a server (It
> will also use dbus to sync rhythmbox, pidgin, and firefox). I am using a
> process on the client that talks to tomboy via dbus, and the server via the
> python active resource library (pyactiveresource).
>
> Anyway. The only real problem I am having so far, is having a way to
> uniquely identify notes across multiple machines. Obviously the best way to
> do that would be to use the guid used in the note files names (like
> 00e9ce26-fc14-46cc-bcad-5a8184cf65ae.note). But the problem is that I cannon
> manually specify the guid that a note will have upon creation.
>
> Can I create a patch for a new dbus method to do this? The best way would be
> to create a new dbus method like:
> tomboy.CreateNamedNoteWithUri(String uri, String like_title) -> (String ret)
>
> Is that something you want added to tomboy? or is there another way to do
> it?
Well, normally I would recommend using the existing sync
infrastructure, or perhaps conduit, to avoid duplication of work. But
that being said, I don't see any problem with adding that method, as
long as it errors-out in the case of guid conflicts or a malformed
guid.
Please file an enhancement bug with a patch in bugzilla.
Good luck with your project,
Sandy
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