[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Views: search behavior (was Re: [PATCH sugar] Views: move the ViewToolbar to the HomeWindow instead of having one in each View)

[Gary Martin]

On 29 Aug 2012, at 18:19, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> I am pretty sure Aleksey knows who was involved :)
> 
> There are more info here [1] and here [2]
> 
> Solve the packaging issues (specially the dependencies required) 
> is another different beast, but we can add the following without problem:
> 
> summary (will be translated)
> license
> homepage
> 
> And at the risk of starting a never ending thread, I propose:
> 
> authors (we see the need of recognition to the work volunteers do)
> repository (will enable improve development process in the future)
> 
> Right now, this information will not be visible, but in the future,
> we can add a tab in the show source window, or find another place to show it.
> 
> Should be good agree at least in the proposed info, and start to add to the activities,
> if not is ever a chicken and egg problem, do not add the info because is not useful,
> and not show the info because is not available...

Hmmm... You really want others now as well? Not busy enough ;)

Summary is the one I'd focus on if we are moving forward with this and show them in the list view. If there is no direct exposure/need the rest will all just bit rot and go stale, like much of the rest of the 'standard' activity file spam that tries to have much of the same information repeated yet again – HACKING, AUTHORS, NEWS, README, TODO – I gave up looking, changing them some time back.

Regards,
--Gary

> Gonzalo
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Feature_ActivityInfo
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gonzalo,
> 
> On 29 Aug 2012, at 13:51, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Btw, re Activity list view. We said at one point that the date displayed in the list has not much meaning (at least at the moment). Did we have an idea for a replacement?
> >
> > +1
> >
> > I know is not a trivial change, but IMHO, would be great have a short description here.
> > We can add it in the activity.info file, and get it translated as the activity name today.
> 
> +1
> 
> FWIW I'm sure I saw this working in an alpha build once (I remember being surprised when I looked in list view, just a few activities had text extra minimal descriptions showing). I don't remember who was responsible but I did have a little dig and found the below existing strings in some activity.info files:
> 
> Garys-Computer:All Activities archive gary$ grep -r summary */activity/activity.info
> CartoonBuilder.activity/activity/activity.info:summary   = Make a cartoon by creating a sequence of poses inside a filmstrip
> Chat.activity/activity/activity.info:summary   = Text chat
> FlipSticks.activity/activity/activity.info:summary   = Using keyframes, program a stick figure to twist and dance
> ImageViewer.activity/activity/activity.info:summary   = The Image Viewer activity is a simple and fast image viewer tool
> Speak.activity/activity/activity.info:summary   = An animated face that speaks whatever you type
> TamTamEdit.activity/activity/activity.info:summary = A music and sound exploration application for Sugar
> TamTamJam.activity/activity/activity.info:summary = A music and sound exploration application for Sugar
> TamTamMini.activity/activity/activity.info:summary = A music and sound exploration application for Sugar
> TamTamSynthLab.activity/activity/activity.info:summary = A music and sound exploration application for Sugar
> TuxPaint.activity/activity/activity.info:summary   = Drawing program designed for young children
> 
> Perhaps we could officially adopt the "summary" keyword if we go this route? I put together a quick mockup [1] using some of the above strings and close to the descriptions as found on ASLO to give an idea for what type of strings misc developers would probably fill this with. Note that an ellipsis ... is used for clipping overly long strings. We would want to provide a style guide for that text, so it is a short, friendly, and as succinct as possible (i.e. say what it does, or what you can do with it in less than 7-10 words).
> 
> Regards,
> --Gary
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Home_list_view_comment_summary_mockup.png
> 
> >
> >  Gonzalo
> 
>