share-like-connect in 4.10

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 03 October 2012, Alex Fiestas wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2012 13:49:28 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > 4. more plugins
> > 
> > yep, those are the two most relevant points (many plugins btw will depend
> > from the web accounts system is being developed)
> 
> Because making SLC default, we really need to have a few plugins, and a
> good tutorial of how create them.

yes, both things are needed (help welcome :p)

> We don't want to expose something by default that doesn't allow to do too
> much, it may cause users to remove SLC because "it does nothing" and cause
> a horrible chain effect.

this is in part true, but at the moment there is the other face of the medal 
that outweights it:
if we are waiting that "magically" it gets ready before putting it in front of 
people, simply won't happen, ever.

I agree that it should have a minimum level of functionality a bit more than 
the current one (not that much, btw), but also anything that delays having it 
ready, is just self hurting.
a good balance can be:
* identify the most urgent work items to make it have a minimum functionality 
(everything that can be added in a second release, should be postponed, 
wanting it perfect now just makes it never done)
* make it a dependency, installed by default, and enabled by default on master
* if for the limit set for 4.10 won't be enough, it will be removed from the 
default setup, but still shipped and installed
* if will actually end up on by default for 4.10 -> party, otherwise will be 
reenabled immediately after master reopens

how does it sounds for feasible? ;)


> Also, in order to exploit the connect, what about adding a folderview with
> "Show files from cuerrent activity" by default?

+1 on this ;)

> Or, how hard would it be to adapt Active container ?

not much for making it work...
but it doesn't completely conceptually work in a desktop use case tough

> Generally people don't understand what "Link to activity" does in dolphin
> because once they link a file, nothing happens. Then you explain to them
> how the folderview works and they love it :p

a folderview on the current activity by default can be a good idea,
also dolphin needs to have a link for the current activity in its sidebar by 
default i think

one thing that would make it optimal in both folderview and dolphin is that 
when somebody drops a file in it, it links the dropped urls to the activity: 
at the moment it just answers with a laconic malformed url, that is not 
exactly a wonderful user experience.

Cheers,
Marco Martin