[kepler-dev] Tagging module - try it out

[Chad Berkley]

Hey Sean,

I just tried it out.  It's working for me.  I'm sure you're still 
changing things, but I'll just point out the stuff I noticed and you can 
ignore anything I say that you already know needs addressing:

* When I add tags, it pushes the "View" dropdown off of the panel.
* IMO, tags should be added to the workflow canvas itself instead of to 
the toolbar since you are actually tagging the workflow.
* The "Tags:" dropdown is really ugly on the mac.  It is just a big 
white box with a blue arrow next to it.
* Since there is very little room on the toolbar to begin with, I think 
we need to put tagging in its own toolbar or maybe in a floating tool 
window.
* I tried to run this from the command line and it failed.  I dug around 
and you are still overriding org.kepler.Kepler.  There are tons of 
changes we made to that for the WRP module and for command line 
compatibility in general.  Your version of that class does not include 
any of our changes.  If you need to make major changes to this class, we 
should incorporate some extension hooks to do what you need to do 
instead of overriding the whole class.
* Where is the "tag manager"?  I couldn't find the menu item for it.

Thanks,
chad


Sean Riddle wrote:
> I wanted to let people know that I've made a bunch of changes to the new 
> tagging functionality, and I want people to put it through its paces and 
> critique it a bit. You can still only tag workflows, but the UI for 
> doing so is much improved. Just enter a tag and hit enter, and it will 
> be shown as a text bubble. Deletion of a tag is also easy. Basically, it 
> looks quite similar to tagging with Gmail. The buttons in the tag 
> manager still don't work, though, and I'll be working on that in the 
> trunk, so I've tagged a copy for people to try. Instructions follow:
> 
> Check out build system:                                                
> svn co http://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/modules/build-area
> Check out tagging module tag:                                            
> svn co 
> http://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/tags/tagging-3Aug2009 tagging
>                                                                     cd 
> build-area
> Get tagging module dependencies and setup modules.txt correctly:        
> ant change-to -Dsuite=tagging
>                                                                     ant run
> 
> - Sean
> 
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