[Sugar-devel] Journal feature request--more data in main display

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 06:29:21PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2009, at 05:53, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:25:54AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>>> * additional types of filters
>>>  for example Library has[2] several types to filter objects
>>>
>>>  * user tags
>>>  * object traits(additional columns from previous section) like  
>>> author,
>>>    genre, date for books
>>>  * activity creators(grouping by activity_id field)
>>>  * types of objects(like top section in filter palette)[3]
>>>  * filter by participants
>>>  * filter by sources(if we are in shared mode)
>>>
>>>  I'm not sure that all of these modes are useful, but something could
>>>  be(or another types)
>>
>> like http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:-5.png
>
> The filters (currently in Journal, and in my mock-ups) are in separate  
> top level toolbar controls. I'm basically just switching them to icons  
> instead of text menus. From your mock-up, "User tags" would be  
> controlled via a palette (not yet finished the mock-up) from that tag/ 
> label icon shown in the toolbar. Next to it will also be added a buddy  
> icon (white outline) for a filter palette (not yet finished the mock-up) 
> that looks like it would cover "Participants".
>
> Where you have "Object types" I understand that as file mime types,  
> which was what I placed at the top of that palette before your mock-up  
> modification :-)
>
> Your "Object traits" I thing a best just dealt with in a universal way  
> as tags, no new ontology needed and gets to benefit from any general tag 
> improvements we make to Sugar (details entry, activity naming dialogue 
> improvements, auto completion, 'tags under title' Journal entry display, 
> the Object Chooser).
>
> I'm not convinced I understand your "Creators" category. Is this  
> original author, the Activity used to build the entry, or something  
> else?

its just grouping my activity_id DS field

>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>

-- 
Aleksey