[tomboy-list] Using dbus api to sync tomboy

[Doug Johnston]

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 at workhorsy.org> 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 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
>>
>
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