Eben Eliason wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Are there any plans to provide a command-line based interface to managing UI >> options such as share/join/leave/invite? I would argue that in the long run >> it would be faster to type something like "join write by Tom" which would >> have the same effect as many point-and-click actions in order to join the >> write activity that tom started (or which Tom is participating in now). >> > > This is an interesting idea, though I hope that we can make the > search/filter UI strong enough to make it almost redundant. For > instance, typing in simply "Write Tom" should turn up all instances of > write which have participants named Tom in them (plus some other > stuff, potentially). Typing something more specific like > "activity:write starter:tom" would find more precise results. If we > can make that filter nearly instant, it would simply take /one/ click > to join the appropriate activity. The search field is focused when > arriving in the view anyway, so even from within an activity it only > takes one extra keystroke (mesh button) to initiate this process. (I > recognize that pressing enter would be faster than even this single > click, but at the same time wonder how frequently we could have 100% > certainty of what a given command intends, since the usernames and > activity names are not guaranteed to be unique anyway.) >
Oh, that's great! Then there is no need for a separate command line. Then, how about extending the functionality of Search with escaped commands like "/join ..." a-la-irc? Also, would it make sense to show a similar command line in views other than just the mesh view, such as in the activity? p. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
