On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:18:47PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > > 2009/11/30 Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>: > >> This isn't quite accurate. We've been adding some pre-loaded content > >> to the Journal for quite some time now, > > > > Are you sure? Or are you referring to a manual process that you do in > > certain deployments? > > > > I have yet to see a sugar installation that comes with a non-empty > > journal. And also I can't think of any non-horrible way that you'd be > > able to hook into the sugar profile creation stages to pre-provide the > > content, even if I did like the idea. > > Many deployments are doing this in some fashion or another. It is > currently an ugly kludge. This proposal will presumable make it less > ugly and less kludgy, but it is undoubtedly useful. > > >> and some activities (as you > >> noted, Turtle Art) have been adding content to the Journal as well. > > > > This is the only one I'm aware of, and it was a big surprise, to the > > extent that I filed bugs upstream and downstream that were confirmed > > by other people who also didn't realise this. I also got the > > impression from you that you don't feel like it is the appropriate > > place to put it, you just did it because it is the only option. > > On the contrary. I don't like it because it is clumsy to implement and > manage. Again, this proposal will address that. What I don't like is > having to keep my examples in the file system and use a file browser > to retrieve them. It turns out that because they are kept separately, > people don't find them.
well, there is another proposal which was already mentioned here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Journal_Plugins#Data_model so, with this feature implemented, user can create bookmark "My TurtleArt programs"(with query by activity id) > I could implement my only browser, a la Pippy, > but as an activity developer, I would much prefer to use the Journal > and I suspect our users would prefer that as well. -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel