On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 20:46 +0100, Morgan Collett wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:34 +0100, Dafydd Harries wrote: > >> Ar 27/07/2007 am 11:18, ysgrifennodd Morgan Collett: > >>> For completeness, I'd like to add the improvements to the PS API to the > >>> discussion - making it actually possible for activity authors to add > >>> collaboration without copying and pasting a lot of obscure code which is > >>> difficult to understand. > >>> > >>> My understanding is this is a Trial 3 must-have. > >> Yes, I think this would be good to work on for Trial 3. Do you have any > >> suggestions for how we might tackle this? > > > > Yeah, this is a must. First, hopefully authors wouldn't have to copy > > tubeconn.py into every activity. Second, hopefully either the Sugar > > activity bindings or the PS itself could help out with some of the heavy > > lifting. In hellomesh/activity.py, the following functions shouldn't > > have to exist within the activity unless activity authors override them > > somehow: > > > > participant_change_cb > > _get_buddy > > _new_tube_cb > > _setup > > > Furthermore, we need a good way of mapping from the Tube's dbus sender > > keyword to a buddy object. > > > > It doesn't matter how this is done, really. Maybe it lives within > > sugar.activity.Activity, maybe within sugar.presence.xxxx, maybe within > > the PS itself. But it's got to be simpler. > > I agree on all of the above. > > I'll send specific proposals / suggestions / patches to sugar@ for > discussion for anything that's not clear. > > I also have the following intentions with the PS API: > * All PS activities get a D-Bus tube automatically in addition to the > Text Channel. Additional tubes could still be created via Telepathy. > Making this automatic would also reduce the amount of support code > necessary. > > * We'll have an API change for PS when the invitations stuff lands, as > instead of Share we'll have Invite and Advertise, to make the > distinction clear.
All this sounds awesome. Dan _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
