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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Alan,

On 11.05.2015 13:53, Alan Bell wrote:
> One thing I have always wanted were scopes that work against
> online services that are *not* online SAAS brands. I want to do
> scopes that point at stuff running on my Ubuntu server, like Odoo
> or OwnCloud or vtiger or Joomla! or Drupal or whatever. Stuff that
> doesn't have one fixed URL, but you might have to authenticate to
> get your data out. Convergence doesn't deliver any user benefit at
> all, what I would like to see is some synergy between the
> platforms, so that Ubuntu Phone works particularly well if you have
> Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Right now the three platforms are
> running a bit of common code (convergence), but don't work well
> together (synergy). We have plans for more convergence, but I am
> not seeing much around making them work better together.

There seem to be two different things in this mail, both not related
to the original topic though...

For scopes fetching data from somewhere else than SAAS brands, well,
create one. The scope framework doesn't restrict the sources of the
content. For example there's a kodiscope in the store that allows
entering a URL in the scope's settings. That should work fine for
things where you don't have to authenticate. For things like owncloud,
the URL can be entered when setting up the account in Online Accounts.


About synergy, I assume you're mostly talking about syncing content
between your devices? For example if you take a picture on your phone,
that it shows up in the gallery app on your desktop too? I agree this
sort of thing would be great but it's really not a trivial problem to
solve. Either you sync everything to a cloud storage (which I'm sure
you don't want, given you're talking about ownCloud) or it can't be
set up easily by the user. If you're ok with doing some manual setup,
you should be able to set up some owncloud syncing already now. I
agree the setup for this kind of stuff needs to become easier, but
we'll get there.

Br,
Michael

> 
> Alan.
> 
> On 11/05/15 12:37, Daniel Wood wrote:
>> I would like to write a scope that uses online accounts.
>> 
>> An example might be Facebook, Google+  or Twitter scope that
>> shows a recent feed and possibly allows some basic interaction
>> and status posting.
>> 
>> One for each service and an aggregator scope would be Ideal!!
>> 
>> Are there any guides or documentation for using the online
>> accounts with scopes?
>> 
>> I have tried to find the Facebook-photos scope in launchpad but
>> I always end up at the unity project.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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