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

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 18:55:53 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 20:13, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tomeu,
>>
>> On 28 Jun 2009, at 09:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/6/21 Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> We have about 60 characters worth of blank space in every Journal
>>>> entry. It would be a great help if we could display 40-50 characters
>>>> from the description field for each entry on the main page. We could
>>>> also drop off the word Activity from every Activity name.
>>>
>>> Are you sure that the description is the best use of the available
>>> space? I was thinking about displaying the tags beneath the title
>>>
>>> Would that work for you?
>>
>> +1 for tags beneath titles.
>>
>> I've just tried a quick mock-up to bounce around some ideas, Tomeu is there
>> a wiki page you're working from that this (and others) could go? Likely
>> needs more refinement but might a few more thinking on it :-)
>
> I'm afraid that would be quite a bit of work, right now I'm planning
> on just adding there the string as-they-are from the Tags field.

An excellent start, particularly if we can get the beginning of the
string-as-it-is from the Description field.

> But would be great if someone wanted to work further on tag entry and display.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
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