#2875 NORM Trial-3: An icon for sharing a link in the web-activity

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#2875: An icon for sharing a link in the web-activity
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  Reporter:  Simon             |       Owner:  Eben    
      Type:  task              |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Trial-3 
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:          
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment (by HoboPrimate):

 Replying to [comment:1 Eben]:
 > This ties back into the notion of sharing vs. bookmarking.  Without
 tabs, I think these might need to be independent actions, but we'll have
 to consider the use cases.  It seems simpler to make them the same thing
 up front, but they could be seen as distinctly separate actions.  Sharing
 a link is an action belonging to the session, placing that page in the
 tray and allowing others to see it.  Bookmarking a page is a global
 action, which denotes that a local cache of that page should be kept for
 offline viewing.

 Right, so isn't it true then that Sharing a Link is more like "Bookmarking
 pages within a Browse Activity", just like you Bookmark Pages within a
 Read Activity? And that typical Bookmarks are more like "Create a new
 Browse Activity in the Journal with this homepage as its starting
 webpage".

 The first action is usefull, for a kid to have one Web Activity with
 related pages within it (eg: a specific research project) and for multiple
 kids which are colaborating within it to be able to add and remove
 bookmarks from it ("This link is pretty usefull for our research").

 The second action is usefull for when the kid wants to snapshot/export the
 current webpage as a divergent Browsing path, for later retrieving and
 following it up on its own separate Browse activity.

 The only problem is: That may mean that these web session bookmarks aren't
 searchable through the Journal.

 But still, I fell these are pretty solid cases of the usefull metaphors
 sugar is being built on: I would love to have such a feature in my desktop
 myself, with a "E-Mail Browse Activity", and a "Comics Browse Activity"
 (and kind of can, just never as cleanly as this method).

 >
 > We've been using the star to mean "keep this as a favorite", and so
 that's quite consistent with the global bookmark.  What icon should we use
 to mean "share this link"?

 If I understand it correctly, the "share this link" icon creates a
 snapshot of the page and visually places it at the bottom of the frame.
 Within a websession, it would be interesting if the current participants
 would see those new snapshots immediately, so the sharing would be
 implicit for those currently in session.

 I would say that the Star icon creates a Session bookmark (snapshot), and
 another option creates a Global Bookmark (either with a new icon, or as a
 secondary rollover menu for the Keep option, with the text "Keep as New
 Browse Activity"). The snapshot links would not have their preview allways
 visible, so to provide more visible space within one Activity, but have it
 in their menu after some timeout. Dragging one of these snapshots to the
 clipboard, would copy them as a snippet (a webpage+url), as well as have a
 "copy to clipboard" menu option. Since these links are snippets, and not
 entire activities, this would go hand in hand with the model of snippets
 vs objects treatment in sugar.

 What are your opinion on this? It somewhat mimicks desktop Web-browsers
 (snapshots as tabs), as well as enhance them (the ability to resume Browse
 activities with their relating snapshots). And since any one of these
 snapshot could be turned into its own activity (Global Bookmark), the kid
 could detach one of them and have it reachable independently through the
 journal.

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