On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 19:34, James Simmons <jim.simm...@walgreens.com> wrote: > 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.
I agree, and thought I was clear in my last email about this. In 0.84 has been work to make this possible, though isn't user visible at this moment. > 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. This is part of the original vision but is another task up for grabs. > 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. Yup, we have mockups that add this functionality. n_tasks_up_for_grabs++ > 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. Maybe open by default in the last activity it was open with? Regards, Tomeu > James Simmons > > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep