Gvfs on Thibault Saunier

Good news about the Google Documents Gvfs Backend

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just a quick post to say that I am back working on the Google documents GVFS backend, and that Google announced this week that they are going to let people uploading any kind of documents to their service. This should mean that using my backend you will be able to actually save any kind of document on the cloud via the Google documents service! I personally think that it makes the backend even more useful!

Please be patient as I (hopefully) should be able to have something stable quite soon!

Some new about my GVFS Google Documents Backend

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just a short entry about my Gsoc project “Nautilus: add Google documents support”. So as I am now in summer vacation (studying in chile for one year), I found some time last week to carry on my work on my GVFS backend. It is still missing a few things and robustness, but it hopefully should be mergeable in this cycle. Actually the reading/writing isn’t fully functionnal so it’s not yet open to public test.

I am now going to Brazil for vacation for one month, but I promise, afterward I will fix this issues, and then would like to find people to test it and report bugs, if it’s possible ;).

Just a little reminder if anyone wants to help me developing/reviewing the backend (we never now ;) ) http://github.com/thiblahute/gvfs/tree/googledocuments

Hopping I can send you interesting news quite quickly!

Gsoc: add google documents support to nautilus

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

During those 12 weeks of my Google summer of code, I have hacked mainly on 2 gnome project which are gvfs and libgdata.

Concerning libgdata, I added the google documents service and it’s now in the master branch, it’s functional even if there are still a few bugs.

As far as gvfs is concerned, I have an alpha version of the gdocs backend which isn’t really usable for final users yet, but don’t worry I am going to make it working well in the coming weeks! All the functions are implemented, I need to stabilize it and optimize it in order to hopefully get it merged in gvfs.

I have also worked a little bit on nautilus to support the new backend (almost nothing).

some screenshots:

If you anyway want to give it a try (I think you should wait a few weeks more), you will need:

Libgdata master branch.
My Gvfs branch.
The latest nautilus and optionality my patch for a better integration of the new GVFS backend.