On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > On 10 Jul 2010, at 23:17, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Cross-posting. >> >> -walter >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Walter Bender <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:13 PM >> Subject: Write to Journal any time >> To: [email protected] >> >> I've been thinking that maybe the place to add this feature is the >> Frame. We could include it as a menu option (like view source) easily >> enough and just use the existing NamingAlert code. That would mean no >> changes to the toolbar and backward compatibility for all existing >> activities. Comments? > > Yes, that would at least avoid having to upgrade all activities to support it > — the 'new' toolbar is a good example of what we can expect for activity > development lag. It has been almost a year since the new toolbar work, and > there are still plenty of activities that don't make use of it (bad for our > UI consistency). Most of our target users still have never seen the new > toolbars as deployers have been focusing on working with 0.84 based builds > for deployment. Maybe, by the time a newer Sugar lands in a major deployment > most activities will have caught up ;) > > On a general note, for me the (automatic) NamingAlert at the end of a session > is still quite controversial, it always seems to manage to get in the way > right when I'm trying to focus on what I need next (a distraction rather than > helpful, by the time I hit Stop I already have a next task in mind, not the > already completed one I'm trying to get rid of). Most of the time I'm > stabbing at close widget, cussing under my breath. However I do understand > you found it useful in a teaching environment last year by specifically > instructing students to fill it out. If we allow the NamingAlert to be called > up when needed, will we still need to trigger it automatically at the end of > a session?
The idea is to replace the automatic triggering with the on-demand access. Just how to invoke it. Integrating it into the toolbar had been the plan, but I am more and more convinced that on the Frame is the way to go. Let's see what others think. Meanwhile, I'll create a patch we can test the idea with. -walter > > Regards, > --Gary > >> >> -walter >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
