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[Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chenxiong,
There is a synchronization service rework in pipeline and this would be a
great addition to it! I like the idea of making the experience of Plugins
and Synchronization services being similar. The user interface part can be
discussed further.

Just building upon your idea, we can have a box with 2 columns. There are
only 2 changes that I would like to make to your idea:
- Instead of keeping available status,we can use 3 ways to represent the
synchronization services. The synchronization service name can be showing
in bold text (available and enabled), black text (available but not
enabled) and grey text(not available).
- Clicking on an available service, you get the description and
configuration options on the right hand side. The bottom right corner of
the column will have enable/disable button.
- Clicking on the unavailable service will show you a description and which
modules are missing. There will not be any configuration options or
enable/disable button.

We can keep a similar interface for plugins. The major change being that in
plugins, we can enable several plugins without any need for configuration
and hence the enable/disable button needs to be out of the right column and
in the main box itself.


Nimit Shah


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:30 AM, tkdchen <qcxhome@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> In my machine, some GTG dependencies are missed, that results in three
> backends cannot be imported. I know this only when launch gtg from the
> command line. And as a non-technical user like others, when open the
> Synchronization Service, they are not listed in the cadidate list, no
> way to know what sync services provided by GTG and why some of them
> cannot be used. It's not a bit of reasonable.
>
> I prefer to allow user to see all backends. The solution is,
>
> - give another status to each backend, might be named `available`.
> That means whether a backend is available for using.
> - backend author is responsible for claiming the environment including
> all dependencies to run the backend very clearly.
> - change synchronization service to be similar with Plugins dialog.
>   - in the left side of the dialog is a TreeView to show all backends,
> and use checkbox to indicate to enable or disable a backend
>   - in the right side, the area shows information of each backend,
> even the custom configuration interaction
>
> Actually, based on current implementation of Synchronization Service,
> the first two items are enough. That's it. What do you say?
>
> Regards,
> Chenxiong Qi
>
> http://about.me/tkdchen
>
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