User:Alsroot/trash/Frame Panels
Summary
Plugins for different view types in Journal.
Owner
- Name: Aleksey Lim
- Email: send an email
Current status
- Targeted release: 0.88
- Last updated: Thu Jul 9 00:36:45 UTC 2009
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
The reason to this feature is having Journal views for different purposes i.e. Journal plugin could be very common/simple but views for Books/Video/etc could have some special UI features. Another benefit of Journal plugins is that we can have non-core plugins and distribute them from ASLO.
Purposes to have special Journal plugins API in addition to activities API:
- security reasons, browsing Journal entries and launch/remove/change objects could be denied for regular activities in next sugar releases
- Journal integration
- fast access to plugin views
- ObjectChooser integration
Plugins API will provide necessary functionality:
- TreeViewModel as a source of objects; so, all pulugins should use TreeViewModel for list widgets
- UI widgets, like TreeView, TableView, tag clouds etc.
- shell related procedures(like activate objects)
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
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
Release Notes
In progress..