Summer of Code/2013/Social Sugar project

This page tracks the progress of Akshit Khurana's GSoC project: "Social Sugar". More details about the project can be found on proposal page.

Work done

checked out previous work done: on webservices, journalx and sugar-network.
added social_ids to BuddyModel, still working on integration to access them in group view.
reading about GObject and Python GTK

Week ending Friday Jun 21st

read about GObject, gconf and some PyGTK.
am able to read social_ids from BuddyModel, access them in Group/Network views, send data through telepathy.

Week ending Jun 28th

Social ids are taken from webservices' Account models.
Working on User Interface for mini profiles. See notes from Mini profiles UI discussion.

Week ending July 5th

Created a couple of svg icons, initially a simple cloud, then a cloud with a speech bubble like pointer for mini profiles
Made few mockups for the neighborhood view, but we would focus on friends view first.
Implemented small icon gtk widget on friends view.
Will work on expanded view of mini profiles this week.

Adding social ids

What are social ids?

Social IDs identify a user on external platforms uniquely.

To create mini profiles in group view, we can add a social_ids dictionary to BaseBuddy model in addition to other properties like nick and color. social_ids is a mapping of `service key` : `uid`. E.g. {'project_sharing_website': '19348r93jfioaf', 'another_service': 'adfjafp1asdf'}

These social_ids will be obtained when a user adds his account to webservices module.

Mini Profiles

Small cloud icon around buddy with same colors (if social_ids is not None)
Expanded view (mini profile)
- The small cloud icon expands into a thought cloud.
- Displays one item from each webservice at a time, rotating.
Each service should support a GET info by public user ID.
Service plugin will implement service call and widget content.