I'm expecting you all to invent Linux groups any minute now. ^_^ On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Andrés Ambrois<andresambr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 03 July 2009 02:29:56 pm Eben Eliason wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >> > On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:47, Eben Eliason wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Aleksey Lim<alsr...@member.fsf.org> > wrote: >> >>> But in that case we should provide possibility to mark objects that can >> >>> be shared(I guess sharing all local objects by default is not a nice >> >>> idea). >> >> >> >> Right. This would be essential. There's definitely some thought that >> >> needs to be done here. >> >> >> >> Scott had an interesting proposal which basically exposed the Journal >> >> (or some subset of it) as an RSS feed. This was really neat, because >> >> it meant we could build a UI for someone else's Journal in Sugar, >> >> populating it with that data, but also that these feeds could be >> >> shared globally, for anyone with an RSS reader to benefit from. That's >> >> a really powerful approach in my mind, and there is some starter code >> >> lying around as a proof of concept already! >> > >> > +1 to rss feed concept, makes life a lot easier in a heterogeneous >> > environment. >> > >> > I'm still catching up on email so apologies if this has been mentioned >> > already. But the UI for marking of entries as sharable does not >> > necessarily need to be another Journal user-interface addition** In the >> > simplest approach you could just extend the Activity "Share with: my >> > Neighbourhood" control to mark a Journal entry as part of the RRS feed. >> > Would need some >> >> The problem I see with this is that we're talking about two different >> kinds of sharing. Just because I want to make a picture I drew >> available for anyone to look at, or even make a "photocopy" of to >> scribble on, doesn't mean that I want to let them into a shared >> painting session so they can scribble on the original with me. >> >> This is the difference between sharing an activity with someone >> collaboratively, and sending them (a copy of) the resulting object. >> >> > thought on wording, do you add more levels of sharing? Or do you just >> > simplify the "Share with:" language language to "Private", "Share with: >> > Anyone". >> > >> > **though I would like entries to visually show their sharing state, the >> > buddy column hints at this but should be made explicit >> >> I do actually think that the Journal is the best place to expose this, >> especially since the way we plan to expose the feature in the UI is >> something like "view <my friend>'s Journal." I'm not sure exactly how >> or where that happens. Perhaps if we can abandon the checkbox for the >> multi-selection we can use that space for a public/private toggle of >> some kind. > > How about using special tags? A "Publish" tag seems reasonable for this, and > consistent with the fact that it could live in a publish directory an HTTP > server would serve. > > I can also imagine a tags used for starred entries and other metadata (in a > general sense) used by sugar. This would make them searchable as well. > > >> Eben >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- > -Andrés > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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