On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> Yes! In theory there are thousands of free books. We need people to be >> able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try >> Sugar. >> >> I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how much >> work that is or who is available to do it now. >> >> Does anyone know where we are in terms of books on the activities portal? > > I've just initiated Library activity. The major ideas were:
Seems like this activity has a lot of functionality. Do you have already a mockup of how the UI would look like? Something as basic as this would be enough: http://expressionflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/paper-mock-up.png Thanks, Tomeu > * to have central mechanism to access to shared(by other users or > activities portal) objects(not only activities) > "shared" means not shared in running activities but in terms of > "sharing books from your bookshelf" > > * fix LTPS issue - then we need all activities that should be > preinstalled on client machines packaged into rpm/deb/etc. > with new mechanism we could preinstall/upgrade bunch of > activities(Journal Objects) w/o need of packaging them > > * implementation in activity(not in Shell/Journal) because we already have > 0.82 and 0.84 platforms w/o this feature, new mechanism intended to support > all platforms beginning from 0.82 > > * support "offline" mode when user who has internet connection could > download all objects from Activities Portal and share them for > others users > > * objectless sharing when only metadata will be shared > > * patch activities.sugarlabs.org to support this mechanism > Activities Portal will be just another sugar user with Library activity > > So, with new mechanism implemented you could put your book to Journal, > register(or so) it in Library activity and share it for other users > (including Activities Portal) > > -- > Aleksey > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
