[sugar] Activity names vs. types

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
| At any rate, I will add (I filed a ticket) a sufficiently large (255
| chars?) name field for activities, although I would much prefer
| designing this mechanism properly (any suggestions by Sugar(ed)
| developers?).

I last discussed this issue with you at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/On_Presence_updates/User_Profiles/Collaboration.
~ I didn't understand your perspective then, and I still don't understand
it now.  I don't know what you intend to achieve with Activity Type IDs,
why they're so short, or how they will be exposed through Telepathy.
However, I can ask a question:

Why does the name field have to be some fixed size?  Would it not be more
efficient and flexible to use delimiters and let the size float?

- --Ben
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