On 28.11.2009, at 17:16, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:24:30PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 27.11.2009, at 17:15, Aleksey Lim wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 04:57:40PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>>> On 27.11.2009, at 07:13, 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 like the idea. >>>> >>>> Reminds me of how in OS X, the Finder can be extended to support more file >>>> formats by a plugin stored in an application bundle. The Finder knows how >>>> to show previews for several document types (audio, video, multi-page >>>> document). It recognizes a limited set of formats (like jpg, mov, pdf), >>>> and the app's plugin simply needs to convert its own format into one of >>>> these formats. >>> >>> yup, I had the same in mind, API will let Journal plugin to use query >>> (tags(which include MIME types tags) and search string) to restrict >>> final set of objects >>> >>>> That's a lot simpler than having to write an actual viewer plugin (which >>>> also would have to be maintained for every new version of the viewer). >>>> E.g., Etoys stores a thumbnail in its project file which are simply >>>> zipped, so the preview plugin just extracts the thumbnail picture from the >>>> project. Tt does not have to care about the actual UI used to display the >>>> thumbnail. >>> >>> there is another benefit for separate plugins - >>> plugins could be out of sugar release cycle(;P to core maintainers) >>> >>> -- >>> Aleksey >> >> I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing, though maybe we do - so >> I'll be explicit: >> >> I'm suggesting that activities would contain those plugins for the types >> they support. > > got it, but not sure, we can get the same result with preview feature, > in preview() every activity can "convert" its object to image, in my mind > its more useful(at least for now) then complicated system with preview > plugins.
That works only if the activity is running. The bundle-provided converter can be run any time, like when downloading a file or from a USB stick. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
