On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 07:19 +0100, Gary Martin wrote: > > Meanwhile, we're working on a work-around that will hopefully fix all > > problems of this sort: a "Rescan" or "Reindex" item on the Journal > > palette. > > Unsurprisingly, a massive -1 from me, but you knew that was coming already! ;)
This was quite expected, but I was also hoping to get alternative suggestions. > > I can already hear a big objection coming: this sort of geeky stuff has > > no place in the Sugar UI. True, but I see no alternative until we'll > > have a 100% reliable datastore that can fix itself in all cases of > > corruption. > > Never going to happen, keep dreaming if you want, but it will only get > better, never perfect. Which is why the Repair function ought to be there. My first impulse was to make it hidden (ctrl-R in the Journal), but the others asked me how would users get to discover it if it were hidden. Remedies for OS bugs have historically been hidden: CTRL-ALT-DEL in DOS/Windows, SHIFT+SHIFT to boot without extensions on System 7... Overly optimistic engineers thought that users would never need to use the secret key combos. Yet, somehow, 100% of users end up learning them merely by word of mouth :-) Now, if we don't want Sugar users to keep handing down the shell incantation "rm -rf .sugar", we'd better provide a less drastic remedy in the UI. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
