[Sugar-devel] Share button in the activity toolbar (from the toolbar redesign thread)

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 07/31/2009 05:14 PM, Eben Eliason wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:05:48PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 13:47, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Another question that came up today:
>>>>>
>>>>> Should the activity toolbar contain the "share" option by default?
>>>>> Disabled by default?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we could use the max_participants property to know when to
>>>> disable the button?
>>
>> This makes sense to me. I think it's useful to keep it in view to
>> indicate that the activity is private. A non-collaborative activity
>> still has a sharing scope.
>>
>>> So, the question is - what is default value for max_participants :)
>>>
>>> In current code it equals to 0 but old sharing component compares it
>>> with 1 thus share combo is visible by default.
>>
>> An activity that supports 0 participants (or fewer!) sounds pretty
>> useless. Clearly 1 is the logical default for this property.
>>
>>> btw all activities, I've seen before that don't want sharing, hide
>>> share combo by share.props.visible not by max_participants, I guess
>>> it signalizes about not consistency of current implementation where
>>> user can hide/show share button by two different methods.
>>
>> Yup, we should push towards consistency here. I'd bet activities
>> wouldn't bother to hide it if Sugar made it insensitive properly.
>>
>> Eben
>
> So, sounds like max-participants should be set to '1' by default. And we use

Definitely.

> this value to display the sharing option or not.
>
> Or did you mean to display it and make it sensitive/insensitive, Eben?

I think it should always be shown, but made insensitive accordingly
based on max_participants.

Eben