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Re: Sources in Scopes

 

To add a new data source to a scope, someone has to write code because the backend data sources can be anything.

There are no plans to allow what you suggest. It would, in effect mean writing code, no matter what sort of description language we were to choose.

Michi.


On 9 Aug 2015, at 20:54 , Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm happy user of Ubuntu phone for a while. I see there is many problems, most of them with scopes and store. Please clarify me one thing: who is responsible to add new data source to scope?
> In example I want to add Endomondo, Runkeeper, etc. account to my activity scope? Can I do that or I need to ask a developer of that scope to do that? On which side is the problem?
>  My question is more general: are 'main' scopes (like Today, NearBy, etc.) developed in a way that some third party developer can add data source by itself?
> If we want to get really powerful scopes, not just rss feeds with some chosen by someone data sources, we need to give third party developers some easy tools for adding their data/accounts/apps into existing 'main' scopes - that is my opinion.
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