<font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"></font></font></font>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Aleksey Lim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alsroot@sugarlabs.org">alsroot@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:36:00AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:58:35PM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote:<br>
> > Hi Aleksey,<br>
> ><br>
> > Today Sebastian explained me that the functionality for final user would be<br>
> > to activate/deactivate access to Sugar Network in the Control Panel.<br>
><br>
> Yes, because Sugar Network is still an experimental feature and<br>
> Sweets Distribution is a common distribution. Thats why it provides<br>
> original UI by default. Sugar Network might be default after making it<br>
> really stable and pople will start using it more than original UI.<br>
><br>
> And for sure, Hexokinase (as a downstream distribution that counts on<br>
> Sugar Network as a major collaboration tool) will have Sugar Network<br>
> enabled by default, even with hiding Control Panel component at all.<br>
><br>
> > Please<br>
> > confirm, if this is the case I would suggest to recycle the Sugar Network<br>
> > icon.<br>
><br>
> Sugar Network icon (three dots in a circle) might be recycled any way.<br>
<br>
</div></div>In fact, the whole idea, in case of Sugar Activities, for Sugar Network<br>
is that these Activities are located in the network. In contrast,<br>
particular local machine might have local Sugar Activities, i.e.,<br>
activities that exist in real directory in ~/Activities and need to be<br>
managed by user manually.<br>
<br>
Keeping in mind the favorites mode in Home view, we might have 3 icons<br>
(instead of current 2 icons for favorites and list modes):<br>
<br>
* favorites icon<br>
activities that are favorited, such activities might be local or from<br>
Sugar Network<br>
<br>
* icon that represent local activities mode<br>
~/Activities directory activate, users are responsible to manage them<br>
remove/change-the-code/etc<br>
<br>
* icon that represent global activities mode<br>
activities come from Sugar Network<br>
<br>
We already have icon (start) for favorites, so, we need icon that says<br>
"local" and one that says "global".<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Aleksey<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>This segregation is not so 'harmonic'.<br><br>Would this be a situation where a global emblem could be applied to the Activity icon of globally sourced Activities?<br>
<br>And shouldn't the Home view options be harmonized with the filters we have in the Journal?<br>Then one could view all in a list by removing the favorites toggle, or filter the favorites by the menu of filters.<br>
<br> --Fred<br></div></div><br>