On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:32:20AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > the Journal view is an Activity in all but name
The Journal's primary function is a "time-based view of ... activities"[1], which is explicitly a meta-activity. There are other differences, including: - the Journal can interact with data store objects it did not create, unlike other activities that are / can be limited for security[2] reasons. - the Journal does not fit in the Collaboration UX like an Activity (it doesn't show in the Neighborhood view, you can't "Join" someone's journal, etc.) - the Journal (for better or worse) is outside of the Zoom metaphor[3] and visually extends to the Frame[4], unlike other activities The reasons that the Journal feels like another activity have always seemed a bit jarring, as it would if the Neighborhood were "just" an activity. An alternative Journal has been done before[5] and it's amazing but note how it's not integrated into the rest of the Sugar Shell (Zoom metaphor components), and that's a real chunk of messy work because the Journal is really not an Activity. > If [kids succeed in replacing the Journal] they can impress their > friends by customizing an important part of Sugar. Yes, but... > Allowing them to replace the Journal Activity with one they > created themselves would be a safe way to do that. If they screw up > the original Activity is still there. ...no. The original activity might still be there, but all that data that just got deleted? Or transformed? ...it's gone. > James Simmons Martin 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal 2. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/Design_Fundamentals/Key_Design_Principles#Security 3. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Zoom_Metaphor 4. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Zoom_Metaphor#Activity 5. http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/journal2/journal2-talk.pdf http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal2
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