Am 08.10.2008 um 10:33 schrieb Morgan Collett: > I filed #8350 regarding adding the journal object picker to Read, for > the case when it is launched from Home View without a document. > > There was a recent discussion on the library list about this, since > the show_launcher setting isn't relevant any more - Read appears in > Home View if you star it. (If Read is installed in the software > updater, it will be starred...) > > I have implemented this, and could release it for 8.2.1, but the > journal object picker doesn't currently have any filters for an > Activity to restrict the view to only relevant entries - so it pops up > with the entire journal visible - images, Write entries, Browse > entries, etc where all we can handle in Read are relevant downloaded > documents, and previous Read instances. > > Is this going to cause more problems than it's worth? > > I could make the object picker pop up again if the selected entry > failed to load, if that helps. > > An alternative to using the object picker is to have a string break > and add a dialog that explains that you launched Read without a > document, and so it isn't useful, and make that stop Read when > acknowledged.
Why not extend the object chooser to include a query parameter? We discussed this a long time ago and it makes sense, it just has not bubbled to the top of the to-do list yet ... - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

