Aleksey,
I've read over your latest Activities/Library document and it looks
good. There is one useful feature that Calibre has that your spec
lacks, which is the ability to launch a viewing application once you
find the book you're looking for. I would expect this feature to work
on texts
Aleksey,
I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified
Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree
with Tomeu that some kind of UI mockup would be a good idea. I've been
programming for a living for over 30 years and reading your description
I
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:14:06AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
Aleksey,
I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified
Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree
with Tomeu that some kind of UI mockup would be a good idea. I've been
Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted
version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to
forward). My original post was:
I have attached a screenshot of calibre. This is a very useful way to look
at books, though I'm sure many
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:01AM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted
version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to
forward). My original post was:
I have attached a screenshot of
The screenshots help the discussion a great deal.
Thinking in terms of how you sort and change views is useful, since
there are a few very different use cases that could all rely on what
Aleksey is describing [local calibre, active filesharing, global
persistent file hosting and bundle
Here is a screenshot from Goodreads.com of the beginning of my
Economics collection. I have to go around the house and find the rest,
put them on a physical shelf together (I recently added three new
bookcases), and add them to my list. People occasionally ask me where
to get a particular book, or
All,
The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are
looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content
just as much if not more than as a way to share said content.
As far as organizing content goes, I like what Calibre does better than
the tree view
To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A lot of programs
(including the dreaded Windows) allow selection of which columns to display,
Here is fisheye.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote:
To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
All,
The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are
looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content
just as much if not more than as a way to share said content.
As far as
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view.
a great idea!..
Instead of
Aleksey,
It isn't clear to me what a cloud of tags is. Is there a familiar
application that does something like this?
I understand that users can tag things to suit themselves, but still I'd
want to impose some kind of structure on the views. When I started
visiting libraries they had card
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
Aleksey,
It isn't clear to me what a cloud of tags is. Is there a familiar
application that does something like this?
Perhaps he means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
James Simmons
Martin
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Jim, children are great collectors. I just think it is wise to try
interfaces with varying numbers of items before concluding that one or
another mode is too complicated. If you'd like to try an interface that
has tunable complexity, you might like to get a copy of the readerware
trial. I can
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
Aleksey,
It isn't clear to me what a cloud of tags is. Is there a familiar
application that does something like this?
thanks to Martin,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
I understand that users can tag things to suit
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
All,
The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are
looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content
just as
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote:
Aleksey,
... In the
Calibre screenshot we had File Size, Publisher, Date, Series, and I
could easily do without any of them.
Whereas I would use each of them frequently.
o File Size is particularly useful for
Carol,
I meant no insult to children. I just thought they could benefit from a
basic structure which they could then add to. Not everyone is good at
designing hierarchies. It's something you have to learn. My own mother
has not really mastered the idea of hierarchical file systems. (Dad
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
Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its display. It
seems to have a reasonable schema. (An easy way to examine it is with the
Sqlite Manger, an excellent Firefox add-on if you haven't already discovered
it).
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Simmons
Carol,
I would not use sqllite 3. The metadata for several hundred books could
easily fit in memory. It would basically be a good sized spreadsheet.
Python has a pickling feature which can save a bunch of objects in
memory in a single file that can be easily reloaded into memory. I
could
You would need to reinvent ACID updates if you shared the catalog.
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.comwrote:
Carol,
I would not use sqllite 3. The metadata for several hundred books could
easily fit in memory. It would basically be a good sized
Carol,
I see sharing the catalog as a read-only thing. I don't know what
Aleksey has in mind for Library. Even if that wasn't true, a database
is not necessary. There is a framework called Prevayler that handles
in-memory databases in such a way that you can lose power without losing
Eben Eliason wrote:
Something we have talked about in the past is a way for individuals to
share content they've created with others, and an obvious means of
accomplishing this task is to provide functionality of a View Alice's
Journal nature, by which Bob could view Alice's shared content.
WebDAV is very nice at a first look, but its implementations are so
radically different, that using it across OSes is often hopeless (from
my limited experience).
2009/5/5 Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu:
Eben Eliason wrote:
Something we have talked about in the past is a way for
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Lucian Branescu wrote:
WebDAV is very nice at a first look, but its implementations are so
radically different, that using it across OSes is often hopeless (from
my limited experience).
- From what I've read, Windows's built-in WebDAV support
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:54:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
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
In case of Library activity I'm going to follow simple rules:
* use local datastore API to search/filter objects
* use remote datastore API(in some way) to search/filter objects from
remote users(sources)
* use telepathy tubes for notifying users about changes
* sync shared objects while
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