Aleksey,
I, too would be interested in what this will look like. From your
description it sounds like a way of grouping things (including texts) in
such a way that you can share them with others without actually having
them open, as long as the Library activity itself is open. I would
guess that if I had a collection of books on my XO that I could make the
whole collection available for download even if I wasn't reading any of
them.
Since you brought this up in response (more or less) to Caroline asking
if there would ever be something like Calibre on the XO I was wondering
if you planned to have features like Calibre has included in it? What I
was thinking of is a grid that lists book information. You would have
columns for Author, Title, Subject (or keywords), and you could sort or
search the grid by any of these columns. This would give you a way to
organize a large collection of texts, something the Journal is ill
suited to do. The other Calibre-like thing you could do is to keep
track of what format the text was in and open the correct Viewing
activity when someone clicks a "View" button and the book's row is
selected. This is another thing that the Journal doesn't do very well.
Calibre uses Qt but I see that pygtk has a TreeView component that could
be used to make the sortable grid.
Caroline mentioned having a collection of over 100 etexts in her copy of
Calibre. If you had that many texts on your XO the Journal would just
list them in sequence by most recently added or read. You could search
on the title string but that's it. It would be a mess to deal with.
The reason I ask is that I'm thinking I might try to write such an
Activity myself, since it would try to address problems I've had with
using the Journal since I got my XO. If the Library activity would do
much the same thing I wouldn't do it.
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
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
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