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.

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.

I tried making an SVG icon in inkscape:

Icon for mini profile cloud.

Mockups

TODO

• see how comments work and think which new methods we should need to get our "interactions" information

Code

socialsugar branch on my sugar fork on github.