Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-24 Thread Nate Theis
Hrmm. Now what if, instead of a socket (which is a kernel-level thing and thus harder to regulate), each activity gets A. Telepathy tubes, for real-time communication. (Activities already have this, we just need a "directory" service that lets activities find other activities' tubes. *but only tub

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-24 Thread George Hunt
Gary, Yioyos, Martin, The trick is to prevent circumstantially malicious co-Activities from doing harm, without at the same time preventing cooperation between functional blocks essential to the satisfaction of user needs. I ran into this issue, when I was writing my python debugger "PyDebug". I

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-24 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 7/24/10, Gary Martin wrote: > From: Gary Martin > Subject: Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and > Content bundles > To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org" > > Cc: "Andreas G

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-23 Thread Michael Stone
Gary, Yioryos, Here are a couple of thoughts for you on isolation issues. (I have thoughts on the Journal issues too but I'll save them for another occasion.) >> Step 3 is to introduce marks (hyperlinks?) in Read and Write where hovering >> over you get the tag opened to tell you what is about, a

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Martin
document, so once saved your annotations can not be removed/edited. I usually end up with a trail of separate documents saved just in case I need to revert. I'm digging around in Reads Epub support at the moment, I'll keep my eyes open for possible annotation support. Regards, --Gar

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-22 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
or that there is nothing we can do about the > Read/ETexts issues and better focus elsewhere, or none of > the above. > > At the end of the day is up to the developers to do > what they want, but is nice to be clear on what we would > like to have if we could. > > > > >