[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Feature Status

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 01:38 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/03/2010 09:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> today is Feature Freeze [1]! Here is a status on the pending features
>>>>> [2]:
>>>>>
>>>>> *** 3G Support
>>>>> The 3G Feature has been landed. Some improvements for this Feature are
>>>>> pending.
>>>>>
>>>>> *** Enhanced color selector
>>>>> The enhanced color selector has seen some design iterations over the
>>>>> last two weeks. A decision needs to be made which design is picked and
>>>>> the code needs to be reviewed. We have to work together closely now to
>>>>> land this.
>>>>>
>>>>> *** Write to journal anytime
>>>>> No patch has been made to try the behavior to display the Journal when
>>>>> closing for the first time. This looks rather unlikely to land.
>>>>
>>>> I have a simple patch that enables the naming alert to be activated
>>>> from the toolbar at anytime and not automatically activated on stop.
>>>> Would such a patch be considered for 0.88 and we can revisit for 0.90?
>>>> (Note that this is a feature that originated in the field.)
>>>>
>>>> -walter
>>>
>>> I agree, this is as an important issue to solve. What about having a
>>> button
>>> going to the Journal detail view of the entry? This is the logical place
>>> to
>>> make such additions.
>>>
>>> Or how do you like the idea to have an option in the activity toolbar for
>>> the description [1]? And adding later one for the tags, too?
>>
>>
>> I think this is more than adequate. I would have it be additive rather
>> than editing the entire description on the toolbar.
>>
>> -walter
>
> Good point, yeah we can see how we represent that best (maybe someone can
> generate a mockup).
>
> I remember someone had worries about screen size, especially for old-style
> activities that has only one tab (since we add another button). We have to
> check for that. For new-style activities it works fine as we have the
> activity toolbar.


Maybe we should hold a marathon weekend of coding to bring all the old
activities up to date? It would be nice to be able to phase out the
old toolbar. It is a bounded task.

-walter

> Regards,
>   Simon
>
>
>
>



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Walter Bender
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