+1 from me too, for all of Gary's reasons. Looking forward to checking the activity out.
-Wade On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > On 12 Dec 2009, at 16:17, Justin Lewis wrote: > >> I am not the author of Bundle. If people would like to test it, fine by me. >> This was written mainly to get some sort of file transfer system on the >> olpc. Another reason is on the 84, it seems you have to pick a file and >> send it to a specific user, where this system lets you pick files and then >> send them to anyone who has joined. > > +1! > > Being able to publish a number of items for download is a very useful feature > (imagine a teacher sharing several resources for a specific class lesson). > Thanks for stepping up to do this. There has been talk on Journal at some > future point providing something similar, but to be honest a really > clean/simple/robust activity would be better, why? > > 1). Journal could be kept clean and simple instead of trying to overload it > with multiple types of sharing features (technically possible, but the design > will just get more and more unusable until it looks like a Microsoft office > product). > > 2). As a separate activity it can be developed out side of the Sucrose > development/release cycle and team. > > 3) As a separate activity it can be used by folks not running the latest and > greatest version of Sugar (think a generation of hundreds of thousands of > kids who use 0.82, and perhaps only ever will). > >> I have not had much testing with it yet so if they would like to test it, >> that would be great. I still have a few things I need to work on, but any >> feedback would be great. > > I'll try and give it some testing, I might have some UI/design type feedback > as well if that's OK with you? ;-) > > Couple of quick questions: > > - Is it possible to create your git repository on http://git.sugarlabs.org/ > or is it already somewhere public? > > - You named your bundle FileShare-2009-12-11.xo, I'd just go with > FileShare-1.xo to stick with current convention, and start bumping up the > version integer for each new release from now on (that way Sugar will happily > upgrade a previous version correctly). > > Thanks again for having a go at tackling this one! > > Regards, > --Gary > > P.S. I think Tomeu mentioned the Bundle activity (I never saw it correctly > working when I tested), as there could be a workflow where basically a zip of > a bunch of Journal entries could be created by an Activity, and then > transferred in one go as a single compressed file (or perhaps in chunks like > a torrent). Your File Share activity could potentially subsume this workflow, > or do something similar i.e. could provide "Download All" as the primary > button that would trigger a downloading of a single zip of everything; then > have little download buttons next to each file if folks want to get just a > few (and avoid the need for users to have to select file rows and click on a > separate download button). Sorry just rambling, only looked at your screen > shot so far ;-) > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
