So Alex was talking about how he views some overlap between Gimmie and the sidebar; trying out the most recent gimmie (from Fedora 7), I think there are some aspects where we could be reusing code between the sidebar "More" links and the Gimmie category dialogs.
Could add a link to Google docs on the Gimmie "Library" tab, for example, then use that as the sidebar More.
Sharing code between the sidebar apps and Gimmie programs would be harder but might be interesting to investigate.
One thing to keep in mind is that I'm hoping to move Gimmie's Library into a more logical grouping of content. You can see the current spitball categorization here, where only the topmost bullets would be directly visible to the user: http://beatnik.tumblr.com/post/8484539
Gimmie currently uses a strange mix of content-type and content-source categorization, for example saved email "Attachments", saved "Downloads", "Google Office" media, generic "Documents" that means all office-style file (and that should aggregate GOffice docs but don't), Tomboy "Notes".
Instead, all the Text-y content would go in a "Text" category, such as GOffice docs, Tomboy notes, downloaded PDFs, received email attachments that happen to be .DOC files, my OOo Writer files, etc.
It might be really hard to match the new layout in Mugshot without taking on the same idea of what the logical grouping of content should be. It's a difficult concept to agree on, and any proposal will be fraught with compromises. But it'll be important for figuring out how to present this stuff to users consistently.
So what do you all think of the Text, Office, Photos, Links, Chats, Video, Music, and Files categorization I've drawn?
-Alex
On Oct 4, 4:25 pm, Colin Walters <cgwalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So Alex was talking about how he views some overlap between Gimmie and > the sidebar; trying out the most recent gimmie (from Fedora 7), I > think there are some aspects where we could be reusing code between > the sidebar "More" links and the Gimmie category dialogs.
> Could add a link to Google docs on the Gimmie "Library" tab, for > example, then use that as the sidebar More.
> Sharing code between the sidebar apps and Gimmie programs would be > harder but might be interesting to investigate.
The categorization seems fine to me; I guess what I'm trying to figure out is how we could make the code sharing happen. For example would it be possible to make the library view a separate executable? Or since we're both Python maybe bigboard could import the code and run it that way.
I'll have a look at the Gimmie code soon to see how feasible these would be.
On Oct 4, 7:54 pm, Alex Graveley <alexgrave...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind is that I'm hoping to move Gimmie's Library > into a more logical grouping of content. You can see the current > spitball categorization here, where only the topmost bullets would be > directly visible to the user:http://beatnik.tumblr.com/post/8484539
> Gimmie currently uses a strange mix of content-type and content-source > categorization, for example saved email "Attachments", saved > "Downloads", "Google Office" media, generic "Documents" that means all > office-style file (and that should aggregate GOffice docs but don't), > Tomboy "Notes".
> Instead, all the Text-y content would go in a "Text" category, such as > GOffice docs, Tomboy notes, downloaded PDFs, received email > attachments that happen to be .DOC files, my OOo Writer files, etc.
> It might be really hard to match the new layout in Mugshot without > taking on the same idea of what the logical grouping of content should > be. It's a difficult concept to agree on, and any proposal will be > fraught with compromises. But it'll be important for figuring out how > to present this stuff to users consistently.
> So what do you all think of the Text, Office, Photos, Links, Chats, > Video, Music, and Files categorization I've drawn?
> -Alex
> On Oct 4, 4:25 pm, Colin Walters <cgwalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So Alex was talking about how he views some overlap between Gimmie and > > the sidebar; trying out the most recent gimmie (from Fedora 7), I > > think there are some aspects where we could be reusing code between > > the sidebar "More" links and the Gimmie category dialogs.
> > Could add a link to Google docs on the Gimmie "Library" tab, for > > example, then use that as the sidebar More.
> > Sharing code between the sidebar apps and Gimmie programs would be > > harder but might be interesting to investigate.
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It's pretty straightforward to do it superficially. There is a small amount of API used for opening topics/categories using a URI. E.g. this snippet shows the printers list in the system tab:
> The categorization seems fine to me; I guess what I'm trying to figure > out is how we could make the code sharing happen. For example would > it be possible to make the library view a separate executable? Or > since we're both Python maybe bigboard could import the code and run > it that way.
> I'll have a look at the Gimmie code soon to see how feasible these > would be.
> On Oct 4, 7:54 pm, Alex Graveley <alexgrave...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind is that I'm hoping to move Gimmie's Library > > into a more logical grouping of content. You can see the current > > spitball categorization here, where only the topmost bullets would be > > directly visible to the user:http://beatnik.tumblr.com/post/8484539
> > Gimmie currently uses a strange mix of content-type and content-source > > categorization, for example saved email "Attachments", saved > > "Downloads", "Google Office" media, generic "Documents" that means all > > office-style file (and that should aggregate GOffice docs but don't), > > Tomboy "Notes".
> > Instead, all the Text-y content would go in a "Text" category, such as > > GOffice docs, Tomboy notes, downloaded PDFs, received email > > attachments that happen to be .DOC files, my OOo Writer files, etc.
> > It might be really hard to match the new layout in Mugshot without > > taking on the same idea of what the logical grouping of content should > > be. It's a difficult concept to agree on, and any proposal will be > > fraught with compromises. But it'll be important for figuring out how > > to present this stuff to users consistently.
> > So what do you all think of the Text, Office, Photos, Links, Chats, > > Video, Music, and Files categorization I've drawn?
> > -Alex
> > On Oct 4, 4:25 pm, Colin Walters <cgwalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So Alex was talking about how he views some overlap between Gimmie and > > > the sidebar; trying out the most recent gimmie (from Fedora 7), I > > > think there are some aspects where we could be reusing code between > > > the sidebar "More" links and the Gimmie category dialogs.
> > > Could add a link to Google docs on the Gimmie "Library" tab, for > > > example, then use that as the sidebar More.
> > > Sharing code between the sidebar apps and Gimmie programs would be > > > harder but might be interesting to investigate.
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