[Sugar-devel] [Design]

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:18 AM, kunal arora <kunalarora.135 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
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>> Note there are already patches implementing this
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>> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2013/5402267310096384
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>> We need agree in the design part, do we really want show all that
>> directories to the user?
>> Can be configured for specific cases?
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> I also think that although this is an essential functionality, displaying
> all the folders may not be the best way to go from the design perspective.
> Some of the options that can be considered are:
> 1) We could choose from the settings, which folders to display. It would
> provide an option of customizability.
> 2) We could just display one Browse option which would display all the
> folders and files of the computer the person could choose from them (I don't
> know how it would be implemented right now though).
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> Maybe the design team could weigh in and provide a better alternative.
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> I also have a few other ideas and questions regarding this which i will
> discuss with you on IRC when you come back.
> My nickname on IRC: curiousguy13
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> Regards,
> Kunal
>

As the instigator of both mounting of Documents in the Journal and the
current ticket, let me chime in with some clarification of my
intention.

(1) We added Documents to enable a simple portal between GNOME and
Sugar. While it is true that there are other useful directories in
GNOME, I think Documents is enough for our purposes.

(2) The activity directories would be made available while the
activity is open. Perhaps we designate
activity.get_bundle_path()/Journal as a location to mount if that path
exists?

regards.

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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