<div dir="ltr">As the time to include new features has ended,<div>I want request a exception to include one more change.</div><div><br></div><div>This feature modify the ObjectChooser, adding a option show_preview,</div><div>
if the option is True, instead of showing a listview similar to the Journal,</div><div>show a IconView with the object preview, and the object title.</div><div><br></div><div>This is useful for activities with a option to include images from the Journal,</div>
<div>as Paint, Write, Fototoon, and Memorize.</div><div><br></div><div>I added the option instead of adding the iconview to all the ObjectChooser,</div><div>because is a bit slower to start if you have a Journal with many images.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regarding implementation, there are changes in sugar [1] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3 [2]</div><div>Every branch have two patches, the first is a preparation, moving the code used </div><div>to generate a image from the datastore preview data, from expandedentry.py in sugar,</div>
<div>to datastore.py in sugar-toolkit-gtk3. I moved this to the toolkit,</div><div>because there are activities using that too, like Portfolio and JournalShare.</div><div>May be should be better create another package as datastore/utils or similar</div>
<div>instead of using datastore/datastore, because I couldn't use the size constants</div><div>defined in activity.py, because activity.py already import datastore/datastore.</div><div><br></div><div>The other change implement a iconmodel/iconview, similar to listmodel/listview,</div>
<div>using a custom CellRendererPIxbuf to genereate the pixbuf as needed,</div><div>instead of generate all the images at once. In the future we can show a star</div><div>for the favorite objects using the same renderer. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Comments are welcome,</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/48">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/48</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/17">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/17</a> </div>
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