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[tkdchen <qcxhome@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).

Sounds good.

> - Clicking on an available service, you get the description and
> configuration options on the right hand side. The bottom right corner of the

It would be great to allow backend author to provide custom
configuration dialog, either shown by clicking a button like the
Plugin or be embedded in the right hand side.

> 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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