Screeshots? :) Eben, can you comment on the UI side of this.
Thanks, Marco On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Wade Brainerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all. > > This is an idea for a Search toolbar in Browse, submitted in order to > generate discussion. It's not acceptable as-is although I wouldn't > mind feedback on the code and interface. > > The real reason for the patch is that I've been helping with the > Wikiserver project - briefly, this is a custom BaseHTTPServer-based > web server which serves a 100MB slice of the Spanish Wikipedia, in > compressed wikitext form. The server is wrapped into a Browse-based > activity bundle. The web server starts when the activity launches, > and shuts down when the activity exits. The Browse activity is set up > to launch directly into the server's home page. > > As a next step, we need to be able to search the wiki, so we planned > to add an HTML search form to the top of each page that the server > returns. But rather than wasting page space and forcing the user to > scroll all the way up to execute another search, wouldn't it be better > to simply add a search box to the toolbar? This led me to adding a > Search toolbar to Browse. > > And that thought led me to, wouldn't it be better to have this web > server running all the time (or at least whenever Browse is running)? > In that case, our Wikiserver project could simply be another kind of > content bundle, there would be no need for the activity at all. > > Best, > > Wade > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
