[Sugar-devel] Testing Journal Share v3

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi Gonzalo and other developers.  Here is some feedback for the
> Journal Share activity v3.
>
> I see current workflow is:
>
> in the sender:
>
> - start Journal Share activity
> - add journal items pressing the '+' button
> - share the activity
>
> in the receiver:
>
> - join activity
> - press "Download" button to grab each shared item
>
> This is much better than sharing the favourite items as in previous
> versions, great!
>
> My first attempt was with an image.  After pressing "Download" in the
> remote, it was displayed in the canvas and left the activity unusable:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/journalshare_b.png



>

I think this is because of the webkit backend.  As a png image is
> something webkit can handle, it displays it instead of doing a
> download.  I guess the same will be with other kind of items, like
> text/html entries.
>
>
Yes, I agree.


> Then I tried with a Memorize session.  It was downloaded.  When I went
> to see it in the remote Journal, I see:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/journalshare_a.png
>
>
Yes. The metadata is not downloaded yet.

I plan implement a solution to both problems: zip the journal object and a
file with the metadata,
and set a unrecognized mime type. Later after download, separate the files
and save properly
in the Journal.


> - the name is not preserved (displays the datastore hash) but it was
> displayed in the remote activity
> - no preview, but again it was there in the remote activity
> - the kind (mime type) is 'application/zip', but was
> 'application/x-memorize-project' in the sender
> - description wasn't preserved, it was replaced by "From: http://127..."
>
> Also: adding more entries in the sender doesn't update the receivers.
> To see the new shared items, I have to stop the activity and re-join.
> Would be great if this can work like the shared thumbnails in Browse,
> which are getting in sync through the session.
>
>
I agree.


> Hope this helps,
>
>
Yes, thanks for testing.

Gonzalo
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