[Sugar-devel] require some information from sugar to develop other plugins

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:19:53PM +0530, Puneet Kaur wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:27 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:59:48PM +0530, Puneet Kaur wrote:
>     > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
>     wrote:
>     >     On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Puneet Kaur <puneet.gkaur at gmail.com>
>     >     wrote:
>     >
>     >         5. Fetching the friends details
>     >
>     >     What information is needed in this case? 
>     >
>     > the names of a person's friends , and their details ( somewhat like
>     > contacts we have in phone , map to the friends in sugar) 
> 
>     Why is this needed?
> 
>     What will it be used for?
> 
>     Who will have access to it?
>    
> 
> 
> It is need to develop the contact cordova plugin : https://github.com/apache/
> cordova-plugin-contacts/blob/master/doc/index.md
> 
> It will be used in case the cordova apps developed for some other platform are
> ported to sugar to be run as activities and in case they use the cordova
> contact plugin then the application should be able to perform on sugar the
> tasks it does on other platform ( we need to see which all can be supported in
> case of sugar - pick contact, find contact and create contact are a few method
> provided in the api )
> 
> The cordova application ( the sugar actiivity) would be able to have access by
> picking up a contact, finding one or creating it.

What control does the user have for releasing this data to the application?

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/