[Sugar-devel] buddy tags

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Benjamin M.
Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Gary C Martin wrote:
>> Mock-ups amended, they now show self tags in the secondary palette area:
>>
>>       http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Buddy_Tags
>
> Why are we calling this section "tags"?
>
> When I look at these mockups, I see a perfect illustration of a "buddy
> profile" [1], like an AIM profile or "away message".  Specifically, the
> mockups appear to preserve the entire string, and not merely provide an
> unordered set of space-delimited strings.
>
> I think this is a "feature".  All you need to do is change the label on
> the entry field from "Tags" to "Profile", and let the search field be a
> full-text search in the profiles.  Users can use their profiles as tags,
> or however they want.

Agreed. I see no reason to enforce a space/comma separated list. I
still kind of like "likes" as the prompt, but something more general
like "profile" could also work.

Eben


> If you want to add tag-specific features like machine-readable tags,
> internationalization, etc., that's fine... but I would make that an
> additional, separate entity from the more flexible Profile.
>
> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6686
>
>