The first weeks of GSoC

So some time has passed since the coding period started and I want to give you a quick update on how things are going so far.

I started working on the improved setup experience of the Nextcloud client, by adding a list of providers that offer hosted Nextcloud installations for their customers. As a second step support for a registration API will be integrated so that users can create an account right from within the setup wizard. A proof of concept implementation for that API is almost ready for the Nextcloud registration app.

I also started migrating Carlos proposal of a cloud providers API to a gtk-independent library that provides basic DBus interfaces for cloud providers and software that wants to access the functions provided by those, like Nautilus.

Although it required quite some time to wrap my head around gdbus and especially the generated code of gdbus-codegen, its getting clearer and I took some notes in order to write a HowDoI entry for the GNOME wiki to help others getting started with it in the future.

Over the next 2 weeks I’ll be continuing migrating the cloud providers library to use gdbus-codegen as well as adding support for the cloud providers API to theĀ GtkPlacesSidebar.

So far for now, I’ll keep you updated on the progress, of course. Thanks for reading.

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