On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 06:59:51PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > 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.
but preview image could be embedded[3] to USB file (if we are talking about objects that activity supports, thus about regular activity objects that have preview field, and not about non-sugar objects) [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Sugar_Bundles -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
