Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-28 Thread Samuel Klein
Daniel, I like the ideas you posted there. I left some specific comments: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Content_support Reuben: >> -Allow one to synchronously or asynchronously share >> a book to their >> Neighborhood so anyone can download and read it. I don't know how synchronous

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. > > > > >

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-21 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 20 July 2010 23:54, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: >> deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package >> these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into >> the "Library," which is contained on the left

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package > these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into > the "Library," which is contained on the left hand side of the Browse > activity. Yes, you read th

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Gary Martin
On 20 Jul 2010, at 19:33, "Reuben K. Caron" wrote: > There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books > (IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can > better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider > deployments that would like to

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 July 2010 12:33, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > So what if we created a "Library Activity" > The activity would: > -Open a book from within the activity > -Highlight and annotate books > -List all of the books you have downloaded > -Allow you to search and download additional books from Feed Books

Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Reuben K. Caron
There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books (IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package these files into .xol