On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Anish Mangal <an...@activitycentral.com> wrote: > 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
Haven't had a chance to write up the notes from today's meeting, but the log is available here [1]. The idea has morphed somewhat. But no plans for a tag mechanism for 0.96. -walter [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Write_to_journal_anytime#Log_from_Design_Team_Meeting_08_January_2012 -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel