On an XO-1 you probably could not copy a 700 MB video to the Journal at all. My experience with CBZ files (Comic Book page images in a Zip file), which are generally 60 MB or so, made me question the wisdom of having such large files in the Journal. As a result, I made a second comic book reading Activity called Read SD Comics, which is designed to store the CBZ's on an SD card. The Journal entry is merely a pointer to the file on the SD card, and contains metadata like last page read, etc. This is a big improvement, in my opinion. You can get a 8 Gig Micro SD card with an SD adapter for about twenty bucks. This works perfectly with an XO-1, except that Activities in general don't use the SD card for anything. The Read SD Comics approach could be ideal for files that are much too large for the Journal itself, like 700 MB movies.
You may also be familiar with my Sugar Commander Activity, which is a limited function Journal Activity alternative. It is limited in function because only the original Journal Activity can do things like copy files to removable drives. If it was possible to use my Activity in place of the original Journal Activity I could make it do much more. If we had a generalized method of doing this we could have several possible Journal alternatives. A child might start with the basic one and change to something else when he got older, for instance. I remember in Windows 3.1 you could specify what executable you wanted to run as the Program Manager or File Manager. This let you customize the OS in interesting ways. The nice thing about having a pluggable Journal Activity is that instead of patching the existing Activity and getting a consensus that your patch is worthwhile you could create something radically different and throw it out to succeed or die on its own merits. James Simmons On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
