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[Michał Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

W dniu 31.08.2014 o 13:35, Sam Bull pisze:
> On sab, 2014-08-30 at 22:51 +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> > Here, too, I'm afraid this goes into the "why isn't
> > $my_favourite_service included by default" problem.
>
> Sure, but given the privacy and open source nature of Ubuntu, I would
> hope that the most well known open source cloud service that anybody can
> deploy on their own servers (or use an existing service) would be a good
> service to include support for. I'd rather the list of supported
> services was not solely proprietary services with very limited privacy
> protection.

The "use an existing service" part does not help privacy protection, and 
"deploy on their own servers" is not really a common possibility. Don't 
get me wrong, I'm not saying it's impossible to include in the default 
set. Just saying it's not as easy as "ah, let's do it and see how it goes".

> > > I'd like to do the same on the phone, the code is Javascript, so I
> > > should be able to reuse it mostly unchanged.
> >
> > I think we need a more generic system here, the notes app shouldn't have
> > to know what ownCloud (or any other service, for that matter) is. It
> > just needs to be a source for a destination (I'm thinking content hub,
> > of course, I'm sure we can engineer something that will make sense and
> > be agnostic to what kind of data is being sent through it, from and to
> > where).
>
> Perhaps, it's just that the ownCloud notes app has an API to be able to
> modify/add/delete notes individually, rather than needing to sync and
> merge an entire file all the time. This makes it trivially inexpensive
> to commit changes to the server immediately.

Isn't every note a separate file anyway? What I wrote about above I 
would see as the target solution, we don't have to get there with the 
first step taken.

> The Reminders app already appears to be implemented as an exclusively
> Evernote service, so it wouldn't be any worse than that.

Sure, that doesn't mean it's good. I'd gladly see support for support 
for my own server to be included in the Reminders app.

> > The app, if realized that the account type is not
> > available, could even link to the store to point directly at the
> > required package.
>
> For something like the notes app, it could simply hide/show or
> enable/disable the sync settings depending on whether there is a service
> configured or not.

Sure, that's possible, but you'd probably want to hint at the available 
sync functionality, so not sure hiding is the right thing.

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Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Canonical Services Ltd.