[Sugar-devel] Multi selection in the Journal feature

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Thanks to all who worked on this, and specially to Martin for the feedback
and help
in the last steps.

Gonzalo


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 19 Jul 2013, at 16:02, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > Thanks to all the reviews.
> > New pull request is available
> >
> > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/64
>
> Cool, I'm looking forward to giving this a try (I don't have an active dev
> build at the moment so will need to wait for it to land in an image). Great
> to see this long requested feature finally make it in! Thanks to all
> involved, and Gonzalo for getting his hands dirty with the final effort to
> land the feature.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> >
> > Gonzalo
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> > A initial version to review of the feature is available to test and
> review.
> >
> > The pull requests are:
> >
> > sugar-datastore: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-datastore/pull/2
> > sugar-artwork: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-artwork/pull/7
> > sugar: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/62
> >
> > This work is based on previous implementations, but is different in many
> ways.
> >
> > In particular, the previous implementation had a performance problem,
> > when the user wanted to select all the ellements in the journal.
> > As the datastore is designed to return the data paginated,
> > the journal needed to do several queries to get all the uids needed
> > to create the list of selected items.
> > This problem is solved adding a method to the datastore to get the uids
> > belonging to a query. As the datastore get that information from the
> index,
> > the query is really fast.
> >
> > Other visible change is the use of real checkboxes in the listview,
> instead of icons
> > with a checkbox drawn. In a desktop, the checkbox is not displayed right,
> > but in the xo is ok.
> > Surely something we need solve in the theme.
> >
> > Another difference in behavior is now the user can interrupt a operation
> while is running.
> > If you realize you started to delete all the objects in a pen drive, you
> can stop it,
> > and at least part will be saved.
> >
> > Gonzalo
> >
> >
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