Re: [Sugar-devel] Customized Sugar

2011-11-24 Thread Tony Anderson
Yes, there are four cases: 1. No color means the entry is in the Journal on the schoolserver (default status). 2. Blue means there a copy of the entry stored locally and this entry can be used to resume a task. 3. Red means that a new entry has been created but is not yet in the Journal (i.e.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Customized Sugar

2011-11-23 Thread Hal Murray
On the laptop, it would be easy to set up a quota for the datastore in which the demon could remove documents from the local store on an LRU basis when the datastore exceeds the quota. This would avoid having the student get involved in managing the Nand. I'd be really annoyed if some

Re: [Sugar-devel] Customized Sugar

2011-11-23 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, What is being deleted is the locally cached copy of a file which is stored on the school server. If the user needs it, it can be downloaded again. Tony On 11/23/2011 11:56 AM, Hal Murray wrote: On the laptop, it would be easy to set up a quota for the datastore in which the demon

Re: [Sugar-devel] Customized Sugar

2011-11-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:21:27PM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, What is being deleted is the locally cached copy of a file which is stored on the school server. If the user needs it, it can be downloaded again. Tony So the color of the star indicates if its on internal storage, on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Customized Sugar

2011-11-22 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I suspect I am about to start a flame war. I apologize in advance. I feel that I need to customize Sugar for use with the schoolserver based on the following considerations. I would appreciate helpful comments (after the laughter dies down). For purposes of this discussion, an activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] Customized Sugar

2011-11-22 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:05:38AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: [...] In this model, when a user launches an activity from the Home View, he/she is starting a new task. When a user selects an entry in the Journal, he/she is resuming work on a previous task. Current versions of Sugar used by