Re: Using dbus api to sync tomboy

> 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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