Hi Chenxiong, There is a synchronization service rework in pipeline and this would be a great addition to it! I like the idea of making the experience of Plugins and Synchronization services being similar. The user interface part can be discussed further.
Just building upon your idea, we can have a box with 2 columns. There are only 2 changes that I would like to make to your idea: - Instead of keeping available status,we can use 3 ways to represent the synchronization services. The synchronization service name can be showing in bold text (available and enabled), black text (available but not enabled) and grey text(not available). - Clicking on an available service, you get the description and configuration options on the right hand side. The bottom right corner of the column will have enable/disable button. - Clicking on the unavailable service will show you a description and which modules are missing. There will not be any configuration options or enable/disable button. We can keep a similar interface for plugins. The major change being that in plugins, we can enable several plugins without any need for configuration and hence the enable/disable button needs to be out of the right column and in the main box itself. Nimit Shah On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:30 AM, tkdchen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > In my machine, some GTG dependencies are missed, that results in three > backends cannot be imported. I know this only when launch gtg from the > command line. And as a non-technical user like others, when open the > Synchronization Service, they are not listed in the cadidate list, no > way to know what sync services provided by GTG and why some of them > cannot be used. It's not a bit of reasonable. > > I prefer to allow user to see all backends. The solution is, > > - give another status to each backend, might be named `available`. > That means whether a backend is available for using. > - backend author is responsible for claiming the environment including > all dependencies to run the backend very clearly. > - change synchronization service to be similar with Plugins dialog. > - in the left side of the dialog is a TreeView to show all backends, > and use checkbox to indicate to enable or disable a backend > - in the right side, the area shows information of each backend, > even the custom configuration interaction > > Actually, based on current implementation of Synchronization Service, > the first two items are enough. That's it. What do you say? > > Regards, > Chenxiong Qi > > http://about.me/tkdchen > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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