Hi Martin, On 30 Mar 2009, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Working a bit on the restore angle of things, if I look at the > metadata entries to build a restorable Journal Entry Bundle... well... > in many cases there is no file to build it from. I know previous releases of Sugar had a design flaw that lost any non- standard metadata after a reboot (Read resuming back to the page you were reading was a common issue). Pretty sure Tomeu fixed this with his re-build of the datastore (sorry should really go check/test). If so, arbitrary metadata is a **great** way for storing small items of data rather than building a new file format. I just think of all the time I (and others) wasted with json/ simplejson/cjson for Moon :-( when all I'm keeping is a couple of preference flags for the view state (I'd first implemented in metadata, until I realised the original design flaw). Journal entries made of just metadata is a great feature for Activity developers, not a flaw. Regards, --Gary > Is that normal. Expected? I am tempted to skip those 'Journal entries' > as they have no apparent value. Do people generally agree, or am I > being bling to some obvious useful part to them? > > Offtopic: Some of the complaints about 'noise' and clutter in the > Journal are probably about these content-less entries. Yes, the user > has opened Browse.xo 3 times today, but that's hardly a document > worthy of backing up, or even storing. > > cheers, > > > martin > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > de...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel