[Sugar-devel] Latest release of Read Etexts, some questions

[Jim Simmons]

Aleksey,

The kind of sharing I'm talking about is entirely handled by the
Activity itself.  If the book is shared using the Journal Send To
feature or the Library Activity I would not do anything to change the
Journal title of the received document as I would assume these other
methods of sharing would take care of giving the received Journal
entry a proper title (and if they don't it is not my problem).

Read Etexts, like Read, contains its own code for sharing books.  If
Read Etexts itself downloads a book from another user that's when I
want to know about it.

James Simmons


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:38:50AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> Tomeu,
>>
>> By "sharing" I mean pretty much what the core Read Activity does when
>> it shares a book.  The person doing the sharing either uses the
>> drop-down on the Activity toolbar to share the book with the whole
>> neighborhood or goes to the neighborhood  view and invites an
>> individual to share the book.  The person or persons invited will see
>> a Read Etexts icon in their neighborhood view and can choose to join
>> it.  Once they do they will receive a copy of the book.  The file
>> being transferred will be a zip file containing both the book text and
>> a pickle file containing annotations and bookmarks, plus the title of
>> the original book in the Journal of the original user will be in the
>> same pickle file.
>
> [1] takes more common approach, and [2] as well
>
> In fact trunk version of Library can browse shared Journal objects(but
> cannot download them). I just decided to integrate all
> Library(implemented of future) features to Journal [3].. and at the end
> it was postponed for 0.88. Anyway I'm going to continue coding it for
> 0.86(as a standalone activity) or for 0.88 as soon as possible.
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Peer_to_Peer_Objects_Sharing
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Server_Objects_Sharing
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Unified_Browser_for_Objects
>
> --
> Aleksey
>