Just a comment ... I have in the past been one to criticize "coloring within the lines" ... but I have learned that this activity is beneficial for young children as a way to develop fine motor control, needed in handwriting and other activities. So not something to treat as a negative in the right context and as long as it isn't used to stifle creativity of expression.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Brian Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is One More Thing that would be a lot simpler and extensible with > > a more flexible journal/datastore (meaning storing Pictures, Audio, > > Video, Data [csv files], etc in a way that can be shared between > > activities). It seems to my uninformed self that, presently, the > > activities are constraining the output. (Disclaimer: I haven't gotten > > that deep into journal/datastore programming yet). I copy Eben... a > > couple sentences on where thought on this is headed? (there's also a > > video I took of discussion this... I'll forward when I find it) > > This is one of the goals behind the new Journal/DS. Right now, > entries are stored, more or less, as blobs which contain the "object" > (file) and the "state" (metadata). (This is exacerbated by the fact > that we don't currently preserve the metadata across reboots, which > encourages developers to incorporate it into their entry blobs) We > realized rather quickly that, while this makes things nice while > working within a given activity stream, it does indeed limit the > ability to use stuff from one activity in another activity, or to > interact with the outside world. In the new Journal, the object and > the metadata will be kept distinctly separate, so that the .png file > that is "My Painting" is pure and clean, regardless of my currently > selected tool, color, zoom level, and other info about the particular > instance of Paint I created it in. > > The revised import dialog (great work on this so far, Tomeu (and > Simon)!) will make it really easy for activities to build buttons > which pull in object of various types directly into their activities. > The vision for the clipboard also includes text and image previews, > custom icons, setting of titles (so the photo of a shark I clipped > from wikipedia is titled "shark.png" instead of "image clipping"), > etc. This richer system, along with better support for drag'n'drop > both in the OS and in all activities, should help to make Sugar a > richer environment for sharing objects. > > - Eben > _______________________________________________ > Its.an.education.project mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project > -- "The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower
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