[IAEP] Library Activity

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Aleksey,
>
> It isn't clear to me what a "cloud of tags" is.  Is there a familiar  
> application that does something like this?
thanks to Martin,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud

> I understand that users can tag things to suit themselves, but still I'd  
> want to impose some kind of structure on the views.  When I started  
> visiting libraries they had card catalogs for Author, Title, and  
> Subject.  It was a good system, and every library used it.  You could  
> create a lot of other indexes but they wouldn't get much use.  In the  
> Calibre screenshot we had File Size, Publisher, Date, Series, and I  
> could easily do without any of them.
>
> Considering that most users of Sugar are going to be children enforcing  
> a minimum structure couldn't hurt.
agree,
at the end Library's functionality(at least on the paper:) grows

I'm thinking about implementing two layers of UI.
Another option - using presets of Library object, like
* "Activities" for activities and objects that could be treated like
  activities(for example .swf files)
* "Books"
* "All my objects"
* etc.
all these presets could have different sets of default UI elements

But anyway, I think its a task for future Library versions.

-- 
Aleksey