Hi, 2012/1/3 Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>: > Gary, Christian, et al., > > We are hopefully going to land some variant of the "Write to Journal > Anytime" patch in Sugar 0.96 [1]. I'd like to discuss the details before > jumping back into the code. The current plan of record is essentially to > make a modal display of the Journal expanded entry (detail view) available > on demand from a button on the activity toolbar (grabbing space freed up by > the elimination of the Keep button). This is essentially what I mocked up > about two years ago. > > While we may have had Design Team consensus on this plan in January 2011, I > remain skeptical. The problems I see with this approach are: (1) the user > cannot see their current work while the model window is displayed -- since > presumably the goal is to write about what you are working on, this seems > problematic; (2) most of the fields in the detail view are irrelevant to the > task of taking notes; (3) some of the fields, e.g., title, already have > mechanisms for change; (4) many of the fields are not human-editable, e.g., > preview image, collabarators.... > > For these reasons and my general dislike of modal interfaces, I suggest a > simple alternative: a text entry in the toolbar that lets you add notes to > the description field directly from the toolbar. Simon (?) mocked this up a > few years back and I think it meets the needs of the run-time access to note > taking. Editing the notes can be done from the Journal expanded entry, which > could be invoked from the currently unused Bulletin Board key (or, > naturally, from the Journal itself).
I agree, the simple text entry pop-up is much better than the modal dialog. This description entry should allow at least 5 lines paragraph and it shouldn't be too thin. And maybe skip the modal dialog when stopping the activity if the description entry has been filled? -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel