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

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/4/6 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
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>> Hi, some bits of design topics for the Web Services feature.
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>> 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:
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>> - Social Accounts
>> - Web Accounts
>> - Web Services Configuration (similar to Modem Configuration)
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>> More ideas?
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>> 2. Icon.  So there is no icon yet.  I did a test using dialog baloons.
>>  I'm not very convinced, what do people think?
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>> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/websettings-icon.png
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/module-webservices.svg
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> By the way I have tried the link and it doesn't exist:
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/WebServices gives 404 not found.
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>> Walter, can you point me to one webservice extension so I can test
>> further?  I can see from this screenshot it embeds a webview?
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>> 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

I copyed extensions/web to my install/share/sugar/extensions but
wasn't grabbed.  Can you provide us a patch to current master?

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

Yes, I remember it was a placeholder.  So what about the topics I
raised, wording proposal and icon proposal?

> regards.
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> -walter
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> Walter Bender
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