[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Sugar Bundles request for inclusion to 0.88

[David Farning]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Sugar_Bundles
>
> One file format to transfer various types of content in/out to/from
> sugar environment with keeping metadata.
>
> In fact, this feature is an end users oriented(technically we not invent
> super format for various types of content, just unified sugar wrapper).
> Users all time know that there is only one type of sugar objects, they
> see it as a Journal item, one file with suffix .xo in non-sugar
> environments etc. So they need only upload this file to Journal and
> click to activate it.
>
> Benefit to Sugar
>
> Out of sugar environment, users know that there is only one type of
> sugar objects and only thing they should do to activate them is
> uploading .xo file to Journal and click it.
>
> So if one user uploaded Journal object(any type - activity, activity
> object, content library etc.) to the web, another user can
> download/transfer-through-many-non-sugar-environments it and open in his
> sugar environment with keeping all metadata(he will get the same Journal
> entry).
>
> We can also collect users object on public server like ASLO to have
> server like sharing feature.
>
+1, I particularly like how this is a convenience feature. (low floor,
high ceiling)

It will make it easy to describe (and learn) how to include and
distribute content.

david