Thanks for the feedback! I will take a look into that. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Gary Martin <<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com" target="_blank">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Martin, <div class="im"> On 4 Sep 2012, at 03:05, Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > @gonzalo: Regarding gtk2->gtk3, no problem, I wil do it ASAP. > > @gonzalo & bert: I would go for the simpler solution. But is really important that we can agree on this. > > @gonzalo: regarding the icon, I think the activity icon works fine, but maybe someone else can give us more feedback to see which one is better to choose (maybe @gary?). </div>Yes need to look at this, the activity icon gets used in many places these days for slightly different meanings, we will wear them out if we are not careful! ;) /me wonders if we can badge the Activity icon with a small box/collection icon. <div class="im"> > @gonzalo: setting the examples option as first is no big deal. > > Before doing anything I think we should agree on these changes. Maybe at tomorrow's design meeting? If these is one, at least informal. </div>Apologies, I know we missed last weeks official meeting as well, but the first 13.0 build triage meeting is today (due to a US holiday yesterday). I at least will not manage a design meeting today. Regards, --Gary <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > Thank you guys for the feedback :) Lets keep pushing this! > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:godiard@gmail.com">godiard@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Another note: > > Thinking in the use case of a developer adding the ObjectChoser with the intention > of show to the users the examples directory content, > like TurtleArt today use a FileChooser, > probably would be good have a option to set the examples directory as the first displayed > instead of displaying the content of the Journal, and then the user need change to > the examples directory. > I don't know how difficult is implement it, but have sense from the point of view > of the usability. > > Gonzalo > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:godiard@gmail.com">godiard@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Sorry, we are so busy, these days... > > I have tested it, and works as expected. > > A few comments: > > * gtk2 branch is in maintenance mode now, probably is better port this to the gtk3 branch. > (Anyway need opinion of sugar maintainers) > > * IMHO the code added to enable configure the examples directory is so complicate, > and do not add too much value. I think is better use a fixed "examples" or "samples" > (as in TurtleArt). If the maintainer want use it, should follow the convention. > We do the same, by example with the "icons" directory. > > * Finally, I think the button in the ObjectChooser deserve a special icon, and not use the activity icon. > Probably using the "box" metaphor. > > Thanks by the work and patience :) > Keep pushing! (my new motto) > > Gonzalo > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Its been too quiet recently. > > Apart from Bert I have not received any feedback from the current "functional design" concept. > > Anyone still interested? :) > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Nice! Please also give it a try :) > > @Gary, Gonzalo, ping ;) both patches are here: <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/patches/examples/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/</a> > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote: > On <a href="tel:2012-08-22" value="+59820120822">2012-08-22</a>, at 04:27, Martin Abente wrote: > > > Hello everyone: > > > > From the meeting notes and Bert suggestion I have what could be called the version 2 of this feature, greatly simplified and complies with everyones rightful suggestions. > > > > To avoid spaming (for some time) the sugar-devel ML I will post the patches just here: > > > > sugar: <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/patches/examples/sugar/0001-Examples-objects-support-V2.patch" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar/0001-Examples-objects-support-V2.patch</a> > > sugar-toolkit: <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/patches/examples/sugar-toolkit/0001-Examples_path-activity-info.patch" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar-toolkit/0001-Examples_path-activity-info.patch</a> > > > > Feedback is welcome! > > tch > > I have not tried it, but by eyeballing the code looks fine :) > > - Bert - > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > I don't see why not, we can achieve both things :). Maybe someone have another opinion regarding this? > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote: > > On <a href="tel:2012-08-21" value="+59820120821">2012-08-21</a>, at 20:17, Martin Abente wrote: > > > > > The design I implemented works like this: > > > > > > a. activity developers or deployments add a new "examples" folder inside the activity bundle with their examples objects. > > > b. when the activity starts, the example folder will be accessible through the journal as new volume option, and also from __any__ ObjectChooser. > > > c. Only one volume button will be shown, even when many instances of the activity are running. > > > d. The example folder will disappear from the journal when the last instance is closed. > > > [...] > > > Waiting for more feedback... :) > > > > And in another thread: > > > > >> instead of a magic directory name, couldn't the <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a> file have a new entry giving the examples path? > > > > > > > > What I tried, or I am trying, to do is to make this feature available as easy as we can, so even deployments could add their own examples with very little technical knowledge requirements. That why I try this convention (magical) idea. > > > > > > Okay, so by default it should look for a directory named "examples". But maybe a different path could be set in <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a>? > > > > - Bert - > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > > > -- > Gonzalo Odiard > > > > > > -- > Gonzalo Odiard > > > </div></div></blockquote></div>