[Sugar-devel] new feature proposal for 102: sharing favorites

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not quit convinced about the implementation, this really feels like
> something that should be stored in gconf/gsettings rather than using a dbus
> method. Might be a good idea to use gsettings directly here because it's
> basically a list of lists and the details of how you store those might
> differ between the two systems, making migration complicated.

I'll look into it.  Right now we use client.notify for changes to the
view background and the number of views, but not as far as I know to
the favorites.

-walter

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> On 5 November 2013 19:51, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've written up a new feature description to enable updating favorires
>> through a dbus service [1].
>>
>> Summary
>>
>> Since multiple homeviews landed in Sugar 100, it would be nice to
>> enable user-space updates to the homeviews. This requires a new dbus
>> service. The idea is that Sugar activities, e.g. ShareFavorites [2],
>> could share favorites without requiring a reboot. So, for example, a
>> teacher could share a desktop specific to a lesson plan.
>>
>> thank you for your consideration.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/UpdateFavorites
>> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/ShareFavorites
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> Daniel Narvaez



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