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Aleksey,<br>
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I, too would be interested in what this will look like. From your
description it sounds like a way of grouping things (including texts)
in such a way that you can share them with others without actually
having them open, as long as the Library activity itself is open. I
would guess that if I had a collection of books on my XO that I could
make the whole collection available for download even if I wasn't
reading any of them.<br>
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Since you brought this up in response (more or less) to Caroline asking
if there would ever be something like Calibre on the XO I was wondering
if you planned to have features like Calibre has included in it? What
I was thinking of is a grid that lists book information. You would
have columns for Author, Title, Subject (or keywords), and you could
sort or search the grid by any of these columns. This would give you a
way to organize a large collection of texts, something the Journal is
ill suited to do. The other Calibre-like thing you could do is to keep
track of what format the text was in and open the correct Viewing
activity when someone clicks a "View" button and the book's row is
selected. This is another thing that the Journal doesn't do very well.<br>
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Calibre uses Qt but I see that pygtk has a TreeView component that
could be used to make the sortable grid.<br>
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Caroline mentioned having a collection of over 100 etexts in her copy
of Calibre. If you had that many texts on your XO the Journal would
just list them in sequence by most recently added or read. You could
search on the title string but that's it. It would be a mess to deal
with.<br>
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The reason I ask is that I'm thinking I might try to write such an
Activity myself, since it would try to address problems I've had with
using the Journal since I got my XO. If the Library activity would do
much the same thing I wouldn't do it.<br>
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James Simmons<br>
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Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:alsroot@member.fsf.org"><alsroot@member.fsf.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Yes! In theory there are thousands of free books. We need people to be
able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try
Sugar.
I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how much
work that is or who is available to do it now.
Does anyone know where we are in terms of books on the activities portal?
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<pre wrap="">I've just initiated Library activity. The major ideas were:
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Seems like this activity has a lot of functionality. Do you have
already a mockup of how the UI would look like? Something as basic as
this would be enough:
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Thanks,
Tomeu
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