[sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

[Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos]

Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
> <ypod at mit.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Are there any plans to provide a command-line based interface to managing UI
>> options such as share/join/leave/invite? I would argue that in the long run
>> it would be faster to type something like "join write by Tom" which would
>> have the same effect as many point-and-click actions in order to join the
>> write activity that tom started (or which Tom is participating in now).
>>     
>
> This is an interesting idea, though I hope that we can make the
> search/filter UI strong enough to make it almost redundant.  For
> instance, typing in simply "Write Tom" should turn up all instances of
> write which have participants named Tom in them (plus some other
> stuff, potentially).  Typing something more specific like
> "activity:write starter:tom" would find more precise results.  If we
> can make that filter nearly instant, it would simply take /one/ click
> to join the appropriate activity.  The search field is focused when
> arriving in the view anyway, so even from within an activity it only
> takes one extra keystroke (mesh button) to initiate this process.  (I
> recognize that pressing enter would be faster than even this single
> click, but at the same time wonder how frequently we could have 100%
> certainty of what a given command intends, since the usernames and
> activity names are not guaranteed to be unique anyway.)
>   

Oh, that's great! Then there is no need for a separate command line. 
Then, how about extending the functionality of Search with escaped 
commands like "/join ..." a-la-irc? Also, would it make sense to show a 
similar command line in views other than just the mesh view, such as in 
the activity?



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