On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly, insofar as the hierarchical filesystem is a worldwide standard > for human-computer interface, it is something which is useful to teach > students. So it seems like a very useful activity.
AFAIK, kids have been able for a long time to learn about organizing information hierarchically without access to hierarchical file systems. But most of the ones who actually use such a system, even when they grow up, end up using the files-in-folders system in a very inefficient way (from personal, direct observation of people who are not IT professionals). > Secondly, from a utility perspective... Have you ever tried to move a > file out of the Journal and onto a USB flash drive? Then change the > name... Or maybe put such a file into a specific directory on the flash > drive? This is scheduled to be "fixed" on the next Sugar release. > If we don't want the journal to behave this way then perhaps the best > place to put the functionality is in another activity. Bundle seems to > have sensible overlap with this problem space. May be something sensible to do while we really fix the underlying problem. > When I was in Uruguay more teachers asked me about issues with the > Journal than anything else. I keep poking on this issue to remind > people that it's not going away in the field. Could you please tell us more about the issues reported? Thank a lot, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel