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[David Callé <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi list,

the lens has been started again from scratch yesterday and is now in the 
PPA.

What's here:

Two categories: Accomplished, Opportunities

Three filters:
Status : Unlocked, Locked
Application : <applications>
Category : <categories>


What's missing:

- Dynamic filters.
When an application filter option is selected, the category filter 
options should change accordingly. It works, but Unity makes it ugly by 
reloading the state of every filters when an application filter option 
is selected. I'm discussing the issue with upstream Unity.

- URI activation.
Nothing happens when a result is clicked. It should open the viewer on 
the trophy page, but I'm not sure if the viewer currently supports it. 
If the website is ready before it's supported, it could open the website 
trophy page in the meantime.

- Daemon activation.
Twisted crashes without any error message when I try to start the daemon 
via the lens (with os.comand or GLib spawn async), but it only happens 
when the lens is started with the session (more precisely, lenses are 
started when the Dash is opened for the first time during a session). 
Starting the lens manually works and launches twisted as expected... 
I've removed the daemon activation from the lens and until it's fixed: 
accomplishments-daemon needs to be started manually or by opening the 
accomplishments viewer. You will see a warning message in the lens if 
the daemon is not running.


The architecture (categories & filters) of the lens is not perfect and 
I'm pretty sure you will have suggestions for it.
A few issues I've noticed while playing with it this afternoon :
- "Accomplished" is not consistent with the viewer, where it's "My 
Trophies".
- "Opportunities" is, when unfiltered, a mix of locked/unlocked trophies 
and I'm not sure how they should be ordered. I'd like to try splitting 
it in two categories : "Opportunities" and "Locked". Having them in two 
places should, IMHO, give a gaming feeling where you would have to 
"level up" or "get the right item" to take them out of the "Locked" 
category, and put them in an available position in order to accomplish them.

Enjoy!

-- David