[Sugar-devel] Use ObjectChooser filtering by activity

[Daniel Narvaez]

I like the idea of disabling the filter in this objectchooser.


On 17 June 2013 15:34, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:

> On 06/13/2013 06:35 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
>
>> On 13 June 2013 18:26, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On 13 June 2013 18:23, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> That is the reason is better modify the behavior of the activity filter,
>>>> than allow any random list of mime types.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>>
>> Oh I see, you are talking about the approach in your patch. That's still
>> quite tricky though... Would you keep the current filtering behavior for
>> journal? Would it apply to object chooser only? To certain object choosers
>> only?
>>
>>
> Yes, the trickiest bit is how to display that in the UI. Non of the
> current filters does match this case here, using the activity icon would
> confront with what it currently means in the filter, as it means an object
> of that activity.
>
> Maybe this special objectchooser has just no filter sub-toolbar? And the
> message when no matching object could be found reads as "No entry found
> that can be opened with Activity [Name of activity]."
>
> Simon
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