[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Web Services, Control Panel section

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi, some bits of design topics for the Web Services feature.
>
> 1. Wording.  Are we OK with "Configure your Web Services"?  First of,
> no other section use verbs.  According to the description in the
> feature page, this is an account manager.  Other names come to my
> mind:
>
> - Social Accounts
> - Web Accounts
> - Web Services Configuration (similar to Modem Configuration)
>
> More ideas?
>
> 2. Icon.  So there is no icon yet.  I did a test using dialog baloons.
>  I'm not very convinced, what do people think?
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/websettings-icon.png
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/module-webservices.svg
>
> When no web services are installed the CP section displays a message.
> Good!  To close it, buttons Cancel or OK can be pressed.  They both do
> the same, which can be confusing, but this is a flaw of the sugar
> control panel itself, nothing to do in this feature about this.
>
> Ideally the link in that message could be pressed by the user, but we
> know the limitations of Sugar opening activities from inside other
> activities.  What would be convenient, is if the text could be
> selected and copied to the clipboard, or dragged to it.  I think it
> could even contain the link information.
>
> By the way I have tried the link and it doesn't exist:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/WebServices gives 404 not found.
>
> Walter, can you point me to one webservice extension so I can test
> further?  I can see from this screenshot it embeds a webview?
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:FB-online-account-manager.png
>
>
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Try grabbing the latest bits from
http://git.sugarlabs.org/+redwood-city/sugar/social-sugar

Re icons, I had just been using the Browse icon.

regards.

-walter
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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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