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<noinclude>{{GoogleTrans-en}}{{TOCright}}</noinclude>[[Category:FeatureLanded]]
== Datastore rework ==
== Datastore rework ==
* Marco Pesenti Gritti
* Marco Pesenti Gritti
=== TODO ===
=== Actions ===
* The datastore code needs to be rewritten, to simplify and improve maintainability. As a first step the API will not be changed at all (other than removing removable devices support, see next goal), so that the new implementation can be swapped in without changes to activities and Sugar. '''(tomeu)'''
* Design alternative UI for managing removable devices. '''(eben)'''
* Drop for now the management of removable devices inside the DS. Removable devices support in Sugar should happen without intervention from the DS. This will require that Sugar grows some kind of simple file manager that access the file system directly. '''(tomeu)'''
* Implement managing removable devices out of the DS. '''(tomeu)'''
* When an existing entry is modified, keep the old version and reference them with a version number. Compress versions with deltas. The journal needs to add a possibility to launch different versions of an activity from within the detail view. '''(tomeu)'''
=== Done ===
* The datastore code needs to be rewritten, to simplify and improve maintainability. As a first step the API will not be changed at all (other than removing removable devices support), so that the new implementation can be swapped in without changes to activities and Sugar. '''(tomeu)'''
* Drop for now the management of removable devices inside the DS. Removable devices support in Sugar should happen without intervention from the DS. '''(tomeu)'''
* [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8155 #8155] The datastore should hard link identical files, to handle repeated downloads of the same content without filling up NAND. '''(tomeu)'''
* [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8155 #8155] The datastore should hard link identical files, to handle repeated downloads of the same content without filling up NAND. '''(tomeu)'''
* When an existing entry is modified, keep the old version and reference them with a version number. Compress versions with deltas. The journal needs to add a possibility to launch different versions of an activity from within the detail view. '''(tomeu)'''
* Support arbitrary metadata properties that activities wish to add [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4662 #4662]. '''(tomeu)'''
* Degrade gracefully if a database gets corrupted- Basic functionality should only depend on the filesystem being available. Any other data structures (full text index) should be rebuildable from the filesystem. '''(tomeu)'''
* Degrade gracefully if a database gets corrupted- Basic functionality should only depend on the filesystem being available. Any other data structures (full text index) should be rebuildable from the filesystem. '''(tomeu)''' [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6269 #6269]
== Solid clipboard ==
=== People ===
Owner: Eben Eliason
Peers:
* Tomeu Vizoso
* Marco Pesenti Gritti
=== Actions ===
* Allow activities to supply a title along a clipping. '''(tomeu)'''
* Allow activities to supply an icon along a clipping. '''(tomeu)'''
* Display a preview of the clipping in the palette. '''(tomeu)'''
* Display the colors of the activity that provided the clipping. '''(tomeu)'''
* Calculate good fallbacks for activities that fail to provide any of the above items. '''(tomeu)'''
* We really need to support a direct "paste" action on clipping items, which poses an implementation challenge. It's important, however, to make this action work in our "object oriented" environment.
* We should have secondary option for paste-and-remove (option-ctrl-v) on the paste button.
* We should have secondary option for copy-and-erase (ctrl-x) on the copy button, to handle the action usually known as "cut".
* The clipboard should support drag'n'drop reordering of clippings, both to make a series of paste-and-removes occur in a desired order, and to allow one to move clippings back to the top, so they don't fall off the bottom as more are made. '''(tomeu)'''
=== Tickets ===
This list is a subset which focuses on the key areas I would like to address. For a more complete list, which invcludes some less noteworthy yet attention deserving bugs, please view the [http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&summary=%7Eclipboard&summary=%7Eclipping&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority full trac query].
*{{Trac|3189|Clippings need API for activity supplied titles}}
*{{Trac|5751|Clipboard objects need meaningful labels}}
*{{Trac|3691|Clippings should take on the colors of the activity they were clipped from}}
*{{Trac|1954|Need "paste" action on clippings}}
*{{Trac|3117|Clippings need previews}}
*{{Trac|4292|Clippings need support for custom icons}}
*{{Trac|2926|Paste and remove: Popping clippings from clipboard stack when pasted}}
*{{Trac|5755|Clipboard should support drag'n'drop reordering (instead of duplicating clippings)}}
=== Status ===
=== Done ===
* Tomeu is working on a prototype of the datastore rewrite.
* Eben is working to refine the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Specifications/Clipboard clipboard specification]
== Memory bloat ==
== Memory bloat ==
* Tomeu Vizoso
* Tomeu Vizoso
=== TODO ===
=== Actions ===
* Improve startup time and base memory usage of the sugar shell and related services. This will involve dropping unnecessary dependencies and reducing the number of processes by merging the Journal and shell service inside the shell process. '''(tomeu)'''
* Improve base memory usage of the Activity class. '''(marco)'''
* Write a clear check list about things you need to do to ensure you are not leaking pygtk widgets. '''(tomeu)'''
* The reference cycle between Widget, Palette and Invoker is causing a lot of leaks. The Palette should not know about the invoker at all. The Invoker should control the Palette instead, pop it up and down, set his position etc. '''(marco)'''
* Improve activity startup time. We might be to rationalize dependencies a bit. Ensure that the startup animation is not slowing us down. Preload more modules inside rainbow. Import modules lazily where it make sense. '''(marco)'''
* BuddyModel is referenced by sugar.presence.buddy.Buddy which is cached, so it doesn't get released as soon as we would like. '''(tomeu)'''
=== Ideas ===
* We are using icons very extensively in the UI and we need a very efficient caching strategy. There are different possible approaches including caching on disk and in the video memory. It should not be hard to do better than we are currently doing, anyway. Drawing and animations performance should benefit a lot. '''(marco)'''
* We need some way to constantly monitor memory usage.
=== Done ===
* Switching between zoom views causes a lot of unnecessary redrawing and flickering. Should be reasonably easy to fix. '''(marco)'''
* Improve base memory usage of the sugar shell and related services. '''(tomeu)'''
== Quality assurance ==
=== People ===
Owner: Marco Pesenti Gritti
Peers:
* We need some way to constantly monitor memory and startup time.
* Simon Schampijer
* Joel Stanley
=== Ideas ===
* The current implementation of thumbnailing requires to take several screenshots of the activity window synchronously on basically every window stack change. Short term solution is to compromise on the accuracy of the screenshots to take them less often and improve performance. Long term we should look into using composition or gtk off-screen rendering to be able to take a screenshot even when the window is hidden/idle.
* Integrate sugarbot into sugar-jhbuild and buildbot. Write tests for it and encourage the activity authors to do so too.
* Start writing unit tests and use nose to run them into the buildbot. We will have to figure out how to unit test UI code.
* Form a community driven bug squad to help with testing and bug triaging, both on the XO version of Sugar and on other distributions. It's important that we get testing well before OLPC is trying to close down it's releases.
* Developers should start using Sugar daily, either on the XO or on a normal laptop.
=== Status ===
=== Done ===
* Several heavy shell dependency has been dropped.
* Get a buildbot running on at least Fedora and Ubuntu. '''(marco)'''
* Merge of the journal and of the shell service into the shell is in progress.
* Pylint the core codebase, check regressions in the buildbot, make it a requirement to be pylint clean to submit patches. '''(marco)'''
* Patches to take screenshots less often are available.
* Add basic checks on the buildbot about shell and activity startup. '''(marco)'''