Tomeu, I've said this before, but maybe I can repeat it once more:
1). I like the idea of the Journal. I would not want to change the Journal proper to support putting items in hierarchies. 2). Having said that, I don't always like the Journal Activity. The biggest problem I have with it is it insists on making things that are NOT in the Journal kind of look like they are. That's a big mistake. I would prefer that SD cards and USB thumb drives that may have files and folders have a totally different user interface from the Journal interface. The interface could be made with a Pygtk tree view. You could copy a file into the Journal, as a Journal entry, or copy a Journal entry into a directory as a file. The file would be named with the title meta tag plus a suffix based on MIME type. Maybe some kind of Journal entries couldn't be copied this way, so copying would not be supported for them. 3). Maybe there would be an option to use the SD card as expansion for the Journal. If you had a 2 gig SD card you could specify that you wanted it treated this way, and from then on your Journal would be 2 GB larger. This option would destroy whatever data was on the SD card to begin with. If you didn't do this, the SD card would have the same interface as a thumb drive. 4). For the Journal proper, I agree that a temporal view has value. However, in addition to that I'd like to sort by the Title meta tag. This would be a natural for etexts, because you could look for a book more easily if they were all in alphabetical order. If you had a large library on your XO the temporal sequence would be annoying. 5). When several Activities support the same MIME type (Zip files are BOUND to be popular) then there needs to be a way of specifying that a particular Journal entry should be resumed by a particular Activity by default. You should be able to change that default at any time, but once changed you'd be able to open any entry with that default with one click. Right now the only way to make a Zip file Journal entry open with the right Activity with one click is to make the Activity open the Journal entry with the Object Chooser, then save it back out as a new Journal entry. Then the user deletes the original Journal entry. We need something easier than that. James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep