[Sugar-devel] Use ObjectChooser filtering by activity

[Daniel Narvaez]

On Thursday, 13 June 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez at gmail.com');>
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>> On 13 June 2013 18:23, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'gonzalo at laptop.org');>
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>>> That is the reason is better modify the behavior of the activity filter,
>>> than allow any random list of mime types.
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>> I'm not sure to understand this. You are proposing to show all the files
>> with mime types the activity can open right? That's pretty much a list of
>> random mime types as far the filtering combo is concerned... You can't
>> select "Anything", you can't select a generic type and you can't select an
>> activity (this might actually be the nearest to accurate, but it's not
>> quite because the files are not necessarily created by the activity).
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> But sugar already knows what files the activity can open, because are in
> the activity.info from the activity.
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Yeah I know, talking about UI here not implementation. Both mine and your
proposal are introducing a slightly different filtering method which I'm
not sure how we would expose in the UI.


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Daniel Narvaez
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