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Re: Using dbus api to sync tomboy
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Yo Doug,
Cool project you have there. I just read through the source code. But
that seems to be more of something for a single user having a way to
backup their notes, with syncing done with the command line auctions (no
offense if it is not. It just looks that way in the code). It seems to
be using the note title(in lower case) as the unique way of identifying
the notes.
What I am trying to do is automatic, real-time syncing. That would work
even if multiple users on different machines were using the notes at the
same time.
Right now I am using the create-date from the xml as the unique
identifier (very scary). Even though the titles are unique, they won't
work because it can be changed. What I want to do is use the note id
(note://tomboy/blah-blah-blah-blah) as the id. But in order to do that,
I will need to specify the note id when creating a note.
If anyone has any better idea, or can help with the dbus stuff, that
would be great.
Doug Johnston wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> You seem to be pretty far along in this and know what you're doing,
> but I thought I'd point out another tomboy/dbus-python interface just
> fyi:
> http://tomboycli.googlecode.com
> That script uploads notes to an experimental tomboy website at
> tomboyweb.appspot.com, as well as exposing the rest of the d-bus
> functionality to locally edit notes.
>
> Best,
> Doug
>
> 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?
>>
>> If you want to get a better idea of what I am doing. The project I am working is here: https://launchpad.net/spacepony. Caution! it is uber experimental. And will nuke your notes all the time. So back them up before trying.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tomboy-list mailing list
>> Tomboy-list@...
>> http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/listinfo.cgi/tomboy-list-beatniksoftware.com
>>
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Cool project you have there. I just read through the source code. But
that seems to be more of something for a single user having a way to
backup their notes, with syncing done with the command line auctions (no
offense if it is not. It just looks that way in the code). It seems to
be using the note title(in lower case) as the unique way of identifying
the notes.
What I am trying to do is automatic, real-time syncing. That would work
even if multiple users on different machines were using the notes at the
same time.
Right now I am using the create-date from the xml as the unique
identifier (very scary). Even though the titles are unique, they won't
work because it can be changed. What I want to do is use the note id
(note://tomboy/blah-blah-blah-blah) as the id. But in order to do that,
I will need to specify the note id when creating a note.
If anyone has any better idea, or can help with the dbus stuff, that
would be great.
Doug Johnston wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> You seem to be pretty far along in this and know what you're doing,
> but I thought I'd point out another tomboy/dbus-python interface just
> fyi:
> http://tomboycli.googlecode.com
> That script uploads notes to an experimental tomboy website at
> tomboyweb.appspot.com, as well as exposing the rest of the d-bus
> functionality to locally edit notes.
>
> Best,
> Doug
>
> 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?
>>
>> If you want to get a better idea of what I am doing. The project I am working is here: https://launchpad.net/spacepony. Caution! it is uber experimental. And will nuke your notes all the time. So back them up before trying.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tomboy-list mailing list
>> Tomboy-list@...
>> http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/listinfo.cgi/tomboy-list-beatniksoftware.com
>>
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