[IAEP] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

[Eben Eliason]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> The idea that activities actually exist in the Journal (and only in
> the Journal) is really exciting to me.
>
> To fully realize this, we should unpack their .xo bundles *into their
> Journal entry directory*,  not /home/user/Activities.

Yes, that's the intended perception. It would be even better if it
were also the technical reality.

> Also, the default Activities should be present in the Journal, which
> means the Journal would not be empty at install time.

There was a lot of back and forth on this idea in the past, but I'm in
favor of showing all pre-installed activities in the Journal, myself.
In the future, if we have the proposed action/object views of the
Journal, the differentiator here would be that pre-installed
activities only appear as objects, since they weren't installed via
interaction with the device on the part of the user. (Of course,
installing updates, modifying them, etc, would all appear in the
action view.)

> And finally, the Home view should actually be a special view of the
> Journal, showing all Journal entries that are activities.  As Aleksey
> says, this would open up all kinds of possibilities for alternate Home
> views which are different views of the Journal.

Yeah, in a sense that's what we envisioned Home to be right now. I see
your point though, if currently some activities don't appear in the
Journal. Cleaning that up would be great.

Eben

> Is this the direction we should be moving in?
>
> -Wade
>