User:Alsroot/trash/Frame Panels

Summary

One code base for all object browsing related functionality.

Owner

Name: Aleksey Lim
Email: send an email

Current status

Targeted release: 0.86
Last updated: Thu Jul 9 00:36:45 UTC 2009
Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Follow Design Team/Proposals/Journal mockups
Support plugins for different UI modes
- Journal objects-centric plugin(for 0.86+ its a part of sugar package, for <0.86 releases it could be a separate activity as well)
- Books plugin, Calibre-like(or so) for browsing books(separate activity)
- Audio plugin for browsing audio files(separate activity)
- Video plugin for browsing video files(separate activity)
- ..
Provide all necessary functionality for plugins
- TreeViewModel as a source of objects; so, all pulugins should use TreeViewModel for list widgets
  - for local objects(rich client for <0.86 and thin client for >=0.86)
  - for remote p2p objects
  - for remote server objects
  - aggregated sources(combine several sources)
- UI widgets, like TreeView, TableView
- shell related procedures(like activate objects)

NOTE Separate activities is not a task for this feature proposal.

Benefit to Sugar

Browsing different types of sugar object looks the same in many cases(search, tagging etc.). So, keep unified code base and do not split it could be useful idea.

Scope

affects Journal code in sugar package
adds new activity for <0.86 releases
Datastore API should provide tags functionality for 0.86+

How To Test

In progress..

User Experience

All objects browsing features will look equally. It should mean that users will reuse theirs Journal experience in browsing books for example.

Dependencies

For >=0.86, all functionality will come from sugar package, for <0.86 it will be packaged in activity.

Contingency Plan

None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

Documentation

Design Team/Proposals/Journal

Release Notes