I, too have suggestions for the Journal: 1). The Journal should show, as a percentage perhaps, how much disk space is free in the Journal, or in whatever removeable media (SD card, Thumb drive) the user is currently looking at. It should give some kind of warning cue when the disk space is dangerously low. The Freevo PVR project does something like this. A full Journal drive can make the XO unbootable. 2). The problem with custom metadata like page numbers not being saved across a reboot should be fixed. 3). Metadata should be saved when the user is loading data from removeable media. For instance, if I keep books on my SD card or thumb drive, I should be able to return to the saved page number, and also see a screenshot of the page I left off on. 4). It should be possible to specify for certain Activities that they should *not* create Journal entries, ever. I'm thinking of the Terminal activity and the Log Viewer activity specifically. The entries for these activities don't preserve the state of when they were last used (and probably should not do so) so there isn't much point in making Journal entries for them. Resuming them is no different that launching them anew from the menu. We already have a way of specifying that an Activity not appear in the menu. This would be an extension of that idea. 5). For extra credit, make the Journal able to do something with read-only removeable media like CDs and DVDs. I'm thinking for instance of letting the user copy a file from a CD into a new Journal entry. Obviously not needed for the XO, but if Sugar was to become a product separate from the XO but aimed at the same audience (poor children needing education) this would be a useful feature.
I think Jacob's suggestion has some merit as well. James Simmmons >Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:16:26 -0700 (PDT) >From: Jacob Haddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: journal suggestion >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Hello, > >First, forgive the suggestion if it is thought up, or implemented or just >plain a bad idea. I am still running 652 so i can be of help to other G1G1 >users. > >One thing that strikes me is multiple journal entires. for example, if i am >reading a book, each time I open the book, there will be an entry in the >journal. (and the journal doesn't remember what page I was on, grrr) > >What would make more sense to me would be a single entry for "read" and "this >book" where the information was stored in that entry. Then if i wanted an >earlier session, for example an older Tam Tam session, instead of the latest >one, entries could be listed on the side from previous dates. > >The reason for the suggestion is how long my journal has gotten, just from >simple things such as reading a book. > >-j > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
