[Sugar-devel] Use ObjectChooser filtering by activity

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 13 June 2013 18:14, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 June 2013 18:12, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> 2013/6/13 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
>> > On 13 June 2013 17:58, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What you think about switch to filter by all the mime type the activity
>> >> selected can open?
>> >
>> >
>> > I suspect the reason we are filtering by generic type is just that the
>> code
>> > was initially written for the journal, which exposes a filter by generic
>> > type in the UI. We need to somehow support filtering by a list of
>> > (non-generic) mime types. Then activities should just filter by the mime
>> > types they support.
>>
>> Right, the Journal has filters for generic types like "Image", "Text",
>> and for activities.
>>
>> I think each one has a good user case.
>>
>> Activity filter example: you are looking for the drawings you did but
>> don't mind the pictures you took.
>>
>> Generic example: you are looking for an image to add to FotoToon,
>> either a drawing you did with Paint or a picture you took with Record.
>>
>> The proposal is to extend the list of generic types?
>>
>
>
> The case I'm thinking about is when you just want to open an object in an
> activity (not add it to another document or stuff like that). In that case
> it seems like you should show all the objects the activity can open and
> generic types should not be involved at all.
>

Concrete example, "choose something to read" in Read.


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Daniel Narvaez
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