[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] progress report

[Lucian Branescu]

2009/6/4 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 22:00, Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since I missed the meeting, here goes.
>>
>> I've had a really hectic past few days, with 2 exams, just getting my
>> laptop back and constantly fighting my Uni network restrictions. But
>> it's better now, finished with exams and I figured out how to trick
>> the proxies.
>>
>> I played around with a template Site Specific Browser based on Browse,
>> almost identical up to now. I think I have SSB generation mostly
>> figured out, I need to start implementing it. I will probably have to
>> either change the existing bookmark mechanism or add a new one,
>> because bookmarks (specifically bookmarklets) should be part of data,
>> not state.
>>
>> I also tried Tomeu's technique for getting Gears to work, but that
>> xulrunner bug prevents any permissions being granted. My initial plan
>> was to test Gears with GMail, but it's not quite possible right now.
>> I'll look into it, but I'd rather not have to build xulrunner.
>
> I think we can workaround the dialog sizing issue in hulahop, ping me
> in IRC and we can see what we can do.

Sizing isn't really an issue. The permission dialog appears and is the
size I would expect, but there's nothing in it.

>
>> Also, now I'm more inclined to do the dbus functionality through
>> pyxpcom, mostly because of security issues.
>
> In my experience with Flash activities using Gnash, rather than giving
> access to the full DataStore API it's much more practical to provide
> some very simple state-saving functionality at first. If the python
> side can tell the JS side to load a buffer of data, and can ask it to
> hand a buffer to save in the DS, we can make 90% of activities work
> with very little effort. We can always make available later the full
> API or even generic DBus access.

Saving state is not really an issue. At least current web apps are
built so that they do not lose any data if they suddenly die and some
of them also resume from where the left off. For most, it would be
enough to save the URL.

Ideally, it would be better to serialise the webview, if possible.

>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> This
>> http://sandbox.movial.com/wiki/index.php/Browser_DBus_Bridge#Gecko_version_notes
>> would provide dbus accessibility directly to javascript and I'd need
>> to handle security around that. Since my dbus needs are limited, I
>> prefer to instead do everything python-side and inject javascript
>> objects that do simple things (notifications, sounds, etc.). Of
>> course, dbus is still a secondary objective.
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