[sugar] filtering result of an object chooser
Michael Stone
michael at laptop.org
Sat Mar 1 14:36:43 EST 2008
> > I thought since this dialog involves explicit user interaction this
> > is okay and not restricted by Rainbow?
>
> Oh, I thought you we proposing not using the object chooser at all?
> That's what I understood by "A work-around is to query the datastore
> directly and present the entries within your own UI".
>
> > > Which API do you suggest to add to ObjectChooser? I'm willing to look
> > > into this in the near future.
> >
> > I'd simply add a query parameter to the ChooseObject() DBus call.
> > Since no shipping activity uses this call directly AFAIK, it should
> > be okay at to do at this time.
>
> I think Bitfrost says that activities that wish to access other
> objects from the journal will need to ask for permission to read an
> specific object type. Michael, can you comment on this?
See tickets #2328 and #3801 [1,2] for my existing comments.
[1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2328
[2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3801
Michael
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