Thanks James, I will look at this activity too. Gonzalo
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:21 PM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gonzalo, > > This sounds a bit like the Library Activity that Aleksey Lim worked on: > > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4089 > > The sharing part was supposed to be something like you would create a list > of Journal entries that you wished to share (something like a bookshelf), > and these entries would be available for download by anyone you had shared > the list with. This functionality was supposed to be part of version 2 > which never got written. > > James Simmons > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org>wrote: > >> A few times, we found simple operations are not so simple for teachers >> in Sugar, >> one case is share one file with all the kids in a class, request a task >> to do >> and later get all the work done by the kids. >> >> I am working in one activity to try to solve this issue, I want share a >> prototype, >> and a few ideas around this issue. >> >> JournalShare [1] allow select a number of items in the Journal and after >> collaboration is >> established, download the files. Pending is the implementation of >> transference of files in the opposed direction. Right now, >> display only the favorite items in the journal, like Portfolio, >> but probably will allow select individual items or use tags to search. >> >> I used webkit to display the UI and a simple server to >> provide the data in JSON format. javascript in the client creates the UI. >> Using HTML and CSS allow fast and easy formating. Right now, >> the format is ugly, but will be improved later. >> >> I think we can improve this to allow adding comments or other social >> features, >> like walter proposed webservices plugins do. Other reason to use a web >> interface >> and not do the client with gtk, is allow easy migration to other future >> environments >> or allow run this in the schoolserver to access the backedup journal >> items. >> >> The most important thing right now is implement the transference from the >> client >> to the server, and test if can scale to have a entire class working >> together. >> >> Download a file is implemented with the downloadmanager from Browse, >> but for any reason does not show the alert when the download start >> but at the end, (probably gtk is blocking the thread or similar), is >> something to solve. >> I stolen code from other activities, like Portfolio, Read and the >> original JournalShare from Agustin. To all the developers, thanks :) >> >> Comments, ideas, bugs or patches are welcomed. >> >> Gonzalo >> >> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/JournalShare-1.xo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> >
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