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.

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. {'/desktop/sugar/user/social/project_sharing_website': '19348r93jfioaf', '/desktop/sugar/user/social/another_service': 'adfjafp1asdf'}

social_ids can be stored in gconf. As multiple social_ids are added, we will have a gconf file that looks like this:

 <gconf>
   <entry name="project_sharing_website" mtime="1370907925" type="string">
       <stringvalue>19348r93jfioaf</stringvalue>
   </entry>
   <entry name="another_service" mtime="1370907925" type="string">
       <stringvalue>adfjafp1asdf</stringvalue>
   </entry>
 </gconf>

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

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.