On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 17:19, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On 30 Mar 2009, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> Working a bit on the restore angle of things, if I look at the >> metadata entries to build a restorable Journal Entry Bundle... well... >> in many cases there is no file to build it from. > > I know previous releases of Sugar had a design flaw that lost any non- > standard metadata after a reboot (Read resuming back to the page you > were reading was a common issue). Pretty sure Tomeu fixed this with > his re-build of the datastore (sorry should really go check/test). If > so, arbitrary metadata is a **great** way for storing small items of > data rather than building a new file format.
Yup, should be working now. Regards, Tomeu > I just think of all the time I (and others) wasted with json/ > simplejson/cjson for Moon :-( when all I'm keeping is a couple of > preference flags for the view state (I'd first implemented in > metadata, until I realised the original design flaw). > > Journal entries made of just metadata is a great feature for Activity > developers, not a flaw. > > Regards, > --Gary > >> Is that normal. Expected? I am tempted to skip those 'Journal entries' >> as they have no apparent value. Do people generally agree, or am I >> being bling to some obvious useful part to them? >> >> Offtopic: Some of the complaints about 'noise' and clutter in the >> Journal are probably about these content-less entries. Yes, the user >> has opened Browse.xo 3 times today, but that's hardly a document >> worthy of backing up, or even storing. >> >> cheers, >> >> >> martin >> -- >> martin.langh...@gmail.com >> mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect >> - ask interesting questions >> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel