On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, this looks pretty cool, actually. One powerful addition which I > think is necessary in order to adopt this is the addition of a Keep > button in that toolbar, by which one *could* download the pdf for > offline reading later if wanted. >
Yeah - the keep button is in my TODO list. However, something which might be a bit confusing is the fact that when Browse accesses a PDF, it creates an entry for that in the Journal, and once the user presses the Keep button, yet another entry will be created - which can be opened by Read later. Do you think two entries for the same thing might be confusing ? > In a similar vein, would it be possible to create a supplemental > toolbar like this for other media types which browse specifically > supports? I could see having a similar UI for images, and a perhaps > for audio and video, too. The ability to view various formats > directly, yet also have a one-click means to download the file, sounds > promising. > For audio/video, it's definitely doable. I'm not sure about images, since I think Browse has its own way of handling images. > - Eben > > PS. While I agree this is a nice thing to support in Browse, we'll > need to make this change very clear, as teachers and kids are familiar > with the current behavior which automatically downloads any .pdf > clicked on. We wouldn't want to confuse them when it doesn't appear > in their Journal directly. > > +1 Thanks, Sayamindu > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> It looks like reading PDF files from the web via Browse is a pain, >> since, Browse saves the file to Journal, and then one has to go to the >> Journal and open up the saved file via Read (#8330). Can we treat PDF >> files like we handle media files (oggs mostly) by means of a Browse >> plugin ? >> I took a look at this during the weekend, and came up with a hack >> which looks like >> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Screenshot_browse_pdf.png >> I used mozplugger and a simple PDF viewer using the Evince python >> bindings to make my work simpler. >> Can this be a possible workaround till we find a better solution ? >> >> Thanks, >> Sayamindu >> >> >> -- >> Sayamindu Dasgupta >> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
