On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 19:56, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> wrote: > On 03/01/12 20:04, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> 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. > > > I had the following proposal: in the activity toolbar you can evoke the > description field [1]. The toolbar could expand on key press to make it > available more quick. > > General Note: I think in any case if we go down that road it should be part > of the base activity toolbar and available in every activity. > > Regards, > Simon > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Description.png > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Are we also thinking of providing the capability to add tags to journal entries using this mechanism? Also, [1] looks like a bit of a hack (Having a text entry field in the palette of a popped-up toolbar icon). I cannot think of another place in sugar where this approach is extensively used (which I presume is going to be the case here)? [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Description.png -- Anish _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
