[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] [DESIGN] for Journal Plugins feature

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 06:13:55AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Want to know what people think about Journal Plugins feature[1]
> and particularly that design team think about UI changes[2] involved
> in this feature.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Journal_Plugins#
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Journal_Plugins#UI_changes

I tweaked "Benefit to Sugar" section a bit

* browsing different types of sugar object looks the same in many cases (search, tagging etc.). So, keep unified code base and do not split it could be useful idea.
* for now, some activities have similar functionality(browsing Journal entries), so having plugins, we will use the same theme for browsing features in sugar
* encourage developers create new view for different purposes(books, media etc.)
* having plugins we don't stick to sugar releases, deployers could create/change plugins that support not only last sugar but version which is in deployment
* having bookmarks, users can have fast access to his books/media-files/etc in the Journal(and using proper view plugin to browse them)
* shared bookmarks is more powerful and useful method of network sharing(in comparing with "Send to" option)

-- 
Aleksey