Thread: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
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conny is offline conny
2009-10-03 , 09:16
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#132
Originally Posted by Blahah View Post
conny I have a feature request, to do with syncing.

I already have a sync setup working using unison, but it would be much easier if we could set the folder where the notes are stored as a config item, and if conboy could read notes in several folders in that location. That would allow us to sync the tomboy backups easily.
The request to be able to configure the directory where Conboy stores it notes has been there before. The problem is, that if we make the directory user configurable, the backup application on the tablets will not be able to find the notes. So backup will break. Because of this, I'm very careful about this request

Originally Posted by Blahah View Post
As it is, there's a complicated series of hoops to jump through involving a unionfs and unison setup with symbolic links.
Hmm, that's bad, I was hoping that sym links should solve this problem easily. Unfortunately I've never tried unionfs.

Originally Posted by Blahah View Post
Is conboy written in python? If so, I could help with development. If not, is there anything else I can do to help?
Conboy is written in C, but using C together with glib/Gtk is not that hard, maybe you want to give it a try?

Now, about the sync stuff. The 0.6-alpha version already contain support for the upcoming http://tomboy-online.org. Personally I think that's the way to go, so I'm putting my energy into that right now.

I could abstract the sync stuff a bit more and make it extensible with plugins, but I'll only do that if there is serious interest of someone who wants to implement different sync methods. For the unionfs problem, I think it would be best to implement a simple directory sync which syncs /home/user/.conboy/ with a other user configurable directory. This would also bring the benefit of conflict handling etc...

What do you think?