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[tkdchen <qcxhome@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).
>

Okay. 'll do that later. thx! :)

> 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.
>>>

Idea update about this item. How about keep the same user experience
with Plugins management.

To the unavailable backends, the corresponding items are disabled (the
font color is gray naturally), and checkbox cannot be checked.
To the available backends for use, disabled (default) ones are
displayed normally, and checkbox is ready to be checked. To the
enabled ones, the corresponding checkbox is checked, and the backend
name with either bold or normal is fine.

Regards,
Chenxiong Qi

>>> > - 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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>>
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