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[Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 14/02/12 22:34, Izidor Matušov a écrit :
> Hi Karlo,
>
> Pedro Gaudêncio is also interested in a contribution to GTG web
> interface. You guys could together and share the work (I think there
> will be enough it for everybody ;)
>
>> The DBus interface might not be complete. Also, I believe that liblarch
>> itself should be exposed through DBus, it would make things a lot more
>> easier. So, what you should do now is :
>> 1) identify the DBus API you need to start working
>> 2) start working
>> 3) As soon as you need a new API, get in touch with me or Izidor
>
>
> Just a suggestion about DBus. Try to create a separate DBus layer in
> GTG web interface. It might change in the future (and it probably will
> when we properly separate GTG core from GTG GTK :-) Dealing with
> "unstable" API just in one place might save you much trouble.
>
>> The biggest challenge I foresee is multi-user storage. Currently, GTG
>> has no concept of user. But, obviously, the web interface will require a
>> valid logged user (assume that the user login is an email address). My
>> take is that currently we have a 123123123.xml file for the task list
>> and that it could be relatively easy to give "user@xxxxxxxxx" parameter
>> to DBus so it opens only "user@xxxxxxxxx/12123123.xml". The good thing
>> about re-using GTG is that backends will still be available in the web
>> interface.
>
> What about each user will have its own backends. Just change the
> backend engine a little bit (inform backends only from tasks from this
> user and vice versa) seems feasible to me.
>
> I am glad that you guys want to contribute to GTG!

When I think about it, those who are building the web UI should not care
too much about multi-user. It would be the job of GTG-server to handle that.