Re: status: 4 - 8 July 2011

[Ben Konrath <ben bagu org>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Murray Cumming <murrayc openismus com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 15:37 +0200, Ben Konrath wrote:
> > * Wrote up a development plan for the next two months:
> >
> > http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Development/OnlineGlom/DevPlan
> >
> > Please let me know if there's anything you want me to adjust.
>
> In general, I am eager to see a good Details page.

Ok, I'll make that a priority.

> >  Rename GlomDocument to DocumentInfo. The new name better reflects
> > the type of data in the DTO.
> What does DTO mean there?

Data Transfer Object is the term used to describe an object whose sole
purpose is to transfer information between the server to the client.
In the case of OnlineGlom, objects in the org.glom.web.shared package
are DTOs.

> > Implement column width size as specified in the glom file.
>
> I doubt that's wise. The width is in pixels, and is useful for the
> desktop UI, whose text size is more predicatable. But even there, this
> should probably be a number of average characters rather than a number
> of pixels. Please ignore it for now.

Good info to know. I removed this item from the development plan.

> > Improve the way the column background colour works.
>
> This is really low priority. Make sure there's a bug open about it,
> please, but then ignore it until later.

OK, I removed this from the development plan and filed a bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654393

Thanks, Ben