On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:47 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > I used my 12h plane ride to Montevideo to play around with 11.2.0 > build 16 and Dextrose 508 on my two XO-1.5 machines. I thought I'd > brielfy comment on some observation I made in the Journal: > > * When copying large files (in my case a 700MB video) over from a USB > drive to the Journal there's no indication of the progress of the > copy-process. For small files I do remember seeing the gray-screen > with some sort of progress-bar but for this one it really looked as > though the system was simply frozen all throughout the copy process > (which also seemed to take ages compared to doing it on my regular > laptop). [11.2.0 / Dextrose]
This is indeed a big usability problem. > * 11.2.0 (not sure about previous versions) also shows the available > Journal space after hovering over the Journal icon when a USB drive is > connected. This is really handy when trying to decide whether to copy > over large files from external media so I think it would be great if > Dextrose also integrated it (which it currently doesn't seem to do). You mean on the journal icon on the device toolbar, in the bottom-left corner? This shouldn't be too hard to back-port from Sugar 0.92. > * Last but not least: allowing the selection of multiple Journal > entries. IIRC this does appear on the to-do list for Dextrose 3 but I > was wondering whether there's a chance it can also make it into > 11.2.0? Maybe it's much harder than I imagine but could this be an > item to tackle during the Sugar Camp in Montevideo? This will indeed take a lot of rework. Perhaps it could be started (and maybe finished) in a sprint session at the Sugar Camp. > > > Overall I was very impressed by these latest software versions and > can't wait to test them more over the coming days and weeks:-) > Thanks for taking the time to test *and* report back! -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
