Hi, Brian, > > - samples projects can be opened up via a samples button in a projects > > toolbar. For now this brings up a file dialog. Eventually this will > > bring up a collection of thumbnails. (the assumption is that samples > > don't belong in the journal) > > > > > > Almost. This has been a tricky question, for sure, and I suppose we > > haven't quite settled on a final solution. Our hope is to make any such > > for of "open" more of an initialization and not a persistently available > > option. Along those lines, the child would have the option to select > > either an example or an empty project when creating a new instance, but > > after that choice they would have to instantiate a new object to choose > > another. > > > > Somehow this doesn't seem ideal. There are times were you want to > quickly browse through a collection of projects. Cases include when > you're first getting started and when you want to check out some sort of > collection of some kind, perhaps of old work you or a friend has done. > Of course you can do this one at a time but it feels like it would be > better to be able to present collections. > > Perhaps there needs to be a mechanism to start activities from web pages > or some other activity with flexible presentation capabilities. Some way > where a collection can be put together in an ordered way. Metadata in > the journal could be a choice, but the journal activity has limited > ability to present groups of thumbnails. (e.g. no way to have a grid of > them)
The Etoys team has similar concern: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2007-August/003003.html We have multiple examples, and other form of help documents that we would rather like to bring in from a file. Also, we would like to hyper-link our documents (right now called projects), to create a series of presentation slides. If we can have a nice model for such use cases, that would be very nice. -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
