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[Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please go ahead and raise this as a wishlist bug (I could do it myself but
it was your idea and it should show so).

Nimit Shah


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, by "configuration options" I meant configuration dialog itself. I
> just didn't want another pop-up/window to come up.
> We can keep the custom configuration options decided by the author on the
> right hand side.
>
> Nimit Shah
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, tkdchen <qcxhome@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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