[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Journal share activity

[Gerald Ardito]

I am not sure if I should be commenting here, but I also prefer the version
with no tabs.
Gerald
On May 2, 2013 12:18 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 to getting rid of tabs.
>
> -walter
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Manuel and myself have been looking at the work-flow for the Journal
>> share activity these days: http://activities.sugarlabs.**
>> org//en-US/sugar/addon/4656<http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/addon/4656>
>>
>> We discussed the design completely independent of possible technical
>> constraints we will see what we can do, and what we can not but we wanted
>> to first look at the work flow itself. Here is the state of things so far:
>>
>>
>> ===Use cases===
>>
>> (a) a teacher is handing out a pdf to the class
>>
>> (b) a teacher wants to collect a picture (Paint) or an assignment from
>> each pupil
>>
>> (c) a group of pupils want to share files between each other (e.g. a
>> project work)
>>
>>
>> ===Questions===
>>
>> * What can you share?
>> You can share Journal items.
>>
>> * To whom can you share?
>> People in your current network (see other activities you share)
>>
>> * Can everyone share who is a member of that session?
>> The case where a teacher wants to collect data from the pupils (b), does
>> impose privacy concerns. There should be the possibility to send a file to
>> one person only without making it public to all of the members.
>>
>> * Is it a push or a pull model?
>> (a) and (b) should be based on a push model. The receiver should be asked
>> for confirmation of this transfer (see the current file transfers in the
>> Sugar shell). Both sides need to know about the status of the transfer.
>>
>> (c) would be handled best with a pull model (see a download).
>>
>>
>> ===Designs===
>> We basically started off with a UI based on tabs [1]. Each member of the
>> session has a tab, the label contains the colored XO icon and the nick name
>> of the learner. The first tab represents yourself. The header of each tab
>> has information about the learner and if it is yours a button to share
>> items with all the members. The body has the items you shared and each item
>> a button to un-share an item. The other tabs list the items the learner
>> shared and a button to download an item.
>>
>> This UI shows the pull model and handles case (c) well. It does not work
>> for the case (b) that well, as a shared item is public to all of the
>> members. Furthermore, a teacher would need to go to each tab in order to
>> collect the data it needs.
>>
>> Based on the downsides of the first UI [1] we came up with the second UI
>> [2]: On the left you see all the members that are present in the shared
>> session (similar to the UI in Memorize). There is a button for each member
>> to send him a file directly (handles case b). This list is scrollable.
>> There could be as well a row at the bottom of the list for a 'sent to all'
>> option to handle case (a).
>>
>> On the right side at the top is the list of items you shared publically.
>> There is a button to add new items. The list is scrollable. There is a
>> button to un-share your items and a button to download items shared by
>> others. This is case (c), case (a) could be handled with this model as well.
>>
>> Below is a widget that shows the incoming items. You can accept those
>> incoming files individually or have a button for accept all. There should
>> be a way to select the storage target (Journal/USB/...) either with a
>> Palette or a dialog. This is case (b).
>>
>> In the second sketch in [2] you can see a feedback widget for the items
>> you sent (one-to-one transfers). It shows if an item has been received and
>> you can cancel a transfer (see the file transfers protocol in the Sugar
>> shell for this).
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Simon
>>
>> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/**share/tabs.JPG<http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/share/tabs.JPG>
>>
>> [2] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/**share/one.jpg<http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/share/one.jpg>
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