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Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released
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I really don't think that using binary flags helps usability. On the
contrary. It just leaves the door open for a tonne of new types of bugs.
How about 'LeastRecent | Subjects | Events' what does that do?
Another problem with the flags system is that it severely limits the
number of result types
2010/10/7 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen mikkel.kamst...@gmail.com:
I really don't think that using binary flags helps usability. [...]
I actually think the current way we do it is pretty nice.
+1
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** Description changed:
I am in discussion with the Software Center team and it seems like they are
growing fond of Zeitgeist.
There is a feature in their queue that they would like to implement and where
Zeitgeist can make it happen:
- Software Center wants to suggest applications to be
Having such ResultTypes sounds reasonable to me, but let's ignore the
implementation details for now, and think about the `Support more ResultType`
topic a bit more:
This bugreport made me realize that the ResultType system as we have it right
now does not scale very well. Right now we have 15
One way which just came into my mind to make things easier to understand
is to use a flag system, like
MostRecent = 0x01
LeastRecent = 0x02
MostPopular = 0x04
LeastPopular = 0x08
[...]
Events = 0x0100
Subjects = 0x0200
Actor = 0x0400
[...]
This way the ResultTypes we have right now can be
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