[IAEP] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)
Aleksey Lim
alsroot at member.fsf.org
Wed Apr 8 15:12:25 EDT 2009
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:12:17AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > Benefits.
> >
> > With this scheme accepted user will have unified interface to all
> > objects(and theirs versions) - content(generated by activities or
> > downloaded from the internet) and activities(downloaded, transfered from
> > friends and home made).
>
> The Home view is not the only place activities live; it's just an
> easily accessible view which makes it easier to see all installed
> activities at a glance, instead of filtering or digging through the
> Journal to find them.
anyway final target is simplifying method for choosing object :)
> > We could treat ASLO(Activity Library) as a Objects Library and encourage
> > people share theirs objects(not only activities) via
> > activities.sugarlabs.org(objects.sugarlabs.org? or library.sugarlabs.org?)
> >
> > Returning to Unified Bundles vs. Gutenberg existed texts, we have no
> > conflicts at all - we could gain all these objects from Tags View
> > (former Home View) and open them by one click.
>
> I urge caution here. We've considered methods of bringing all kinds of
> objects (not just activities) into Home in the past, but it's a
> problem to be dealt with carefully. For one thing, we desired not to
> introduce lots of extra management facilities for defining what lived
> in Home. I'd need some detailed proposals of how this might work to be
> convinced it's a good idea.
I'll try to formalize it later - any suggestions are welcome
> Also, we don't want to duplicate the
> Journal, or take away its intended use by overloading Home too
> strongly.
I missed this point completely -- I meant we could have
Journal(technical term not current Journal View) and View backends,
in my original message only Tag View(in my mind most common
View backend) but we could have various backends(including "classical"
Journal and Home Views)
--
Aleksey
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