[Sugar-devel] Searchable Tagging

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 22:25, kartik rustagi<kashes911 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have started working on adding the feature of "Search able tags" to Sugar.
> This will allow
> the users to tag them self or any else in the network. These tag will be
> generalized tags. Users
>  will have the option to search for users having a particular tag. Say for
> example I tag my self
>  as : "I love python". Then if a user in the network searches for "python",
> the result will show
> me. Here are some of the use cases (contributed by tomeu):
>
> Use case 1: Finding people with similar interests:
> Pepe enjoyed during the weekend his first rock climbing experience and would
> like to find other
> people in his school who also like it.
>
> Use case 2: Limiting the mesh view to a subset defined locally:
> Maria is a teacher and would like that during her classes, only her students
> in that class appear in
>  the mesh view.
>
> Proposed user experience
>
> Use case 1: finding people with similar interests:
> Pepe tags itself as climbing, and when someone searches in the mesh view for
> "climbing", Pepe will
>  appear in the results.
>
> Use case 2: limiting the mesh view to a subset defined locally:
> Maria tags each of the students in that class with the tag "my_class", so
> that when searches in the
> mesh view for that text, only her students appear. In the case that someone
> else has tagged himself
> with that same tag, it will appear as well in the results, but will be
> marked differently as the local matches.
>
>  As it can be seen, this feature will be a precursor to add "Groups" to
> Sugar.  I am right now trying to
>  add these tags to /source/sugar-presence-services/src/buddy.py and try to
> read these using D-Bus interface.
>
> Feedback and suggestions are requested. If some one wants to add some new
> and interesting use case, they
> can do it at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tagging_Proposal
>
> ps: I have ejabberd set up in my system and wanted to know how to use gadget
> on it. If any one has done some
> thing similar, please let me know.

Looks like you are on the right track. Keep it up!

Regards,

Tomeu