[tomboy-list] Using dbus api to sync tomboy

[Matt Jones]

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 at workhorsy.org> 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
>