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

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> 2013/4/6 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
>
> I copyed extensions/web to my install/share/sugar/extensions but
> wasn't grabbed.  Can you provide us a patch to current master?
>

Not sure what you mean by "wasn't grabbed"
I'll try to prepare a current patch to master of the whole of the patch
series. (But I thought the social-sugar branch was pretty current.

>
> > 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?
>

I agree re the name. Not sure about the icon proposals. They don't say
'web' to me.


>
> > regards.
> >
> > -walter
> > --
> > Walter Bender
> > Sugar Labs
> > http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
>
>
> --
> .. manuq ..
>

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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