A delayed response: I do think there should be a separate 'library' activity, and whether it is part of the browser or not, that is the right place to access "browse books" and "browse audio materials" and "browser [X] to download".
Perhaps on the XO, this activity is tied intimately with the object store, and is an interface to it. This kind of activity/interface should also be available to people not using an XO who browse to a library portal... that version should run in a browser. SJ On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 21:24 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote: >> I'm going to be adding some Internet Archive library browsing, searching >> and ebook downloading functionality, using RSS feeds. >> Since search results are returned as RSS: Do you think I should I try to >> use penguintv to browse RSS feeds of book search results? Run it as a >> separate activity that switches back to the ebook reader when you click >> on a link to a pdf file? Or would it be easier (and better integrated) >> to embed the rss reader in the ebook interface? Is there a way to >> register the ebook reader activity as the handler of the pdf content >> type, so both the web browser and rss reader will switch to it to read >> PDF files? > > [ Adding Eben and sj, since I'd like to have their opinion ] > > I think the best place to integrate access to the Archive library is > probably the OLPC library. Right now it's just the home page of the web > browser activity but later it might become a separate activity. > > Clicking on a pdf there would be opened by the default pdf handler, > which will normally be the Read activity. (Right now mime handling is > hardcoded in sugar but later we will have a way for activities to > register themself as handlers for certain object types). > > Can search/browsing be implemented inside the web browser? That would > probably be the easier approach... > > Marco > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
