[GSoC] Improve user experience with CMIS – Weekly report #6

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 20:00 +0200, Szymon Kłos wrote:
> My work this week:
> * I integrated my dialog with FileDialogHelper. Now RemoteFilesDialog
> could be executed using the same command like normal file picker,
> filters are added depending on context.
> * bug 84190 - user wasn't able to change password after failed
> authorization.
> * bug 83089 - Cannot select location in properties dialogue
> * I added support of opening multiple files
> * some small improvements
> 
> Now I'm working on async operations. In this dialog it could be useful
> to cancel current action, because sometimes opening remote directory is
> very slow (connection to the cmis.alfresco.com/cmisatom takes > 30s,
> which is default timeout in async mode). User should have possibility to
> stop this process, for example after selecting any service by mistake
> without waiting. Timeout also shouldn't be too short, because it may be
> insufficient (like 30s for alfresco example).
> 
> To do:
> * async operations

To get full async support you'll need to implement async API functions
in libcmis, which may be quite a big project. This could be something to
keep for the end of GSoC if you have some time left for it: better get
the dialog working and be slow rather than having nothing ready at the
end of the term.

--
Cedric

> * implement support of context bits
> * open/save remote buttons on toolbars
> 
> Regards,
> Szymon
>