Re: Using dbus api to sync tomboy

> It wouldn't be a bad idea at all to put a guid inside the note itself,
> just for purposes like this. That way we wouldn't be relying on
> filenames.
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Matt Jones <mattjones@...> wrote:
>  
>> Cool. I'll see if I can do that.
>>
>> And the reason why it cannot use the existing sync stuff (at least now), is
>> that it will sync all the desktop settings (pidgin, rhythmboy, firefox, et
>> cetera). So it would make more sense for that to be external for those
>> projects, rather than making changes to all of them.
>>
>> Sandy Armstrong wrote:
>>    
>>> 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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